Flying Lessons

Learning to fly is not difficult and anyone with good general health and acceptable physical co-ordination can learn. Flying an aircraft or glider is an exhilirating experience and whether you take a one-off lesson or undertake a whole series of lessons in order to become a qualified pilot, leading to a career, you will always remember the experience of “taking control” for the first time!!

Typically, your first flying lessons will teach basic skills such as straight & level flight, turning, taxiing, climbing & descending, taking off & landing. Once you have mastered these skills you will move on to a second level, which is centred on Navigation Training. These lessons will teach you how to navigate by the use of Visual Flight Rules (VFR). VFR flight entails looking out the window of your aircraft and using your map to identify landmarks such as roads, towns, rivers, lakes, coastlines, train tracks etc. and using these landmarks to navigate. This stage of te raining requires between 45-75 hours and includes ground studies. Once you have completed this stage you will be issued with a PPL (Private Pilot’s licence)