PRIVATE PILOT

Welcome! This course will teach the essential knowledge needed to pass the Private Pilot Airplane written exam. It will also prepare you for your actual flight training with a certified flight instructor (CFI). You can go through the lessons at your own pace and focus on the topics you want to review the most.

GETTING OUT OF THE PRIVATE PILOT COURSE

Many people attempt to pass the written exam using short-term memorization. Although you may pass doing this, it can lead to significant issues during the checkride and oral exams. If you fail your checkride, it will be recorded on your FAA record and you will have to spend a significant amount of money on training.

Our goal is to teach you aviation as a whole and especially the concepts so that you truly understand them, instead of memorizing them ineffectively.

Continuously updated (last update January 2025)

By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge to:

Know what it takes to become a private pilot, and what you can do with your license.
Understand how aircraft systems operate, and what information they provide you in flight.
Explain how airplanes fly and the effect of various aerodynamic forces.
Compute weight and balance problems and properly load the aircraft.
Calculate density altitude, takeoff/landing charts and understand there effect on performance.
Interpret Federal Aviation Regulations.
Factors that affect flight performance, including hypoxia, various illusions, and more.
Assess and mitigate risks.
Identify and predict dangerous weather phenomena, read and understand aviation weather report such as METAR, TAF, PIREPs and more.
Understand airport organization and how to decode airport and information.
Radio communication and understand the controllers and pilots lingo.
Identify airspace and read charts and extract useful information to safely conduct your flights.
Navigating an aircraft using on board instruments.
Basic use of flight computers, and more importantly successfully plan a cross-country flight and much more.