Flight School

The visits of flight schools, the conventional method, and proper flying habits. Similar to a vehicle of the subject matter in a theoretical and practical part is divided. To be personally tailored to reach the flight school is to find out whether the found flight school is a registered flying school that can train up to a Personal pilots license (PPL), or to an approved flight school and are also above the PPL may teach.

The e.g. also the night flight, or banners flying informed. The basic knowledge in the theoretical part is the air law, human performance, air navigation, meteorology, radio communication, navigation, aerodynamics, aircraft engineering and instruments, which is tested in multiple choice procedure. The practical lessons include reading the checklist, starting, monitoring the instruments, flight control, the aircraft radio, flying in the traffic pattern, the horizontal, climbing, descending and turning flight, the landing, navigating, flying in controlled airspace, flying with the aid of instruments, solo, using the previously learned, and behavior in specific situations. To get a PPL, you should expect about 40 practice hours.

A practice hours amounts to approximately 100 € - 150 €, which is related to the fuel related. Plus about 500 € for the theoretical part. Training materials, test and medical examination will be counted separately. However, there are flight schools that offer special rates for the unemployed and students, and so the acquisition of the pilot's license for almost everyone makes affordable. Today, there are in almost every town a registered flying school where you can buy at least a PPL-A license. The oldest operated flight school is the way in Germany. This has been teaching since 1922 at the water peak, the highest mountain in the Rhön.

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