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Private Pilot Requirements

Here are the requirements for obtaining your Private Pilot Certificate, the list can seem like a great deal of work, however you will be having so much for learning how to fly - working on the list will seem like fun and just fly by.

The best ideas come from visitors and here is another example of just that. A future pilot called from Washington DC and asked if we had a ‘check list’ for all the items to ask when determining the cost of learning how to fly.   Gee, what a good idea!  Proving that some good things really can come from inside the Beltway!

The purpose of this chart really is not to compare prices, and it will be very tempting to use it that way.  A word of wisdom here, don’t do that. Buying flight training is not like buying other products. Buy quality, and you will save money in the long run. Really!

Our Career Pilot Seminar will help you learn more about being a Commercial Pilot. It was first presented in 2007, however the information is still very current.

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At United Air Lines recently put 100 aircraft on hold. But this isn’t an indication of pilot careers going down the tubes. On the contrary, it’s only indicative of the changes that are currently going on in the industry. While the major airlines are cutting down, the regional airlines are in full bloom. The routes that are run by major airlines with large airplanes and low load factors are being taken over by low-cost regional operators whose airplanes are almost always full. One example of this transition occurred as recently as March 9, 2004, when United Air Lines announced agreements with three regional airlines to begin operating United Express routes this year. As a result of this agreement, Republic Airlines will fly 16 70-seat regional jets (RJs), Chautauqua Airlines will operate 16 50-seat RJs and Shuttle America will utilize 10 Saab 340 turbos under the United Express logo.

The following article is reprinted from Plane & Pilot Magazine with permission from the May 2004 issue.

We invited leading industry representatives to our offices in Los Angeles for a conversation about the future of cockpit careers. Here’s what they had to say:

After September 11, pilot careers in 2001 looked bleak. Newspaper articles confirmed the airlines were hemorrhaging red ink, thousands of pilots had been furloughed and new hires appeared to be a thing of the past. While the media continues to talk about the tough times in the commercial air-travel industry, many insiders think the tide has turned.

Choosing a flight training school is not an easy task. After looking at a variety of brochures and Web sites, they all start to look the same. It becomes difficult to separate good a flight school from those who are simply good at selling themselves.

Besides the obvious items such as location, type of aircraft, and availability of student loans, there are many other items to consider when selecting your flight school. Often these items are not in the brochures aviation flight training colleges send out to you.