PRIVATE PILOT

Private Pilot Package

Have you ever dreamt of being a pilot?

What holds you back?
Fear? Don’t know where to start? Money? Or, is it really...the MONEY??
Traditional flight training can be very expensive. Especially, if you don’t plan on being a pilot for a living.

Training in FAA approved simulators can help you build the skills needed to fly an actual plane with no dangerous outcomes and without spending thousands of dollars more by only using traditional flight schools.

The FAA requires a minimum of 40 hours of flight hours for a Private Pilot Certificate. Statically, the average person gets their certificate at 65 hours.

By using flight simulators, we have students ready for their checkride in as little as 35 hours (even though they still would need 40)

How’s that? Well, a lot of flight training is learning aspects of flying a plane that really doesn’t matter if you’re in a real airplane or a simulator. Most all of your training at a traditional flight school will be in an actual plane, and, if you haven’t noticed or looked into, yet, renting a plane can be expensive. Not only that, a CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) needs to be present, which adds to the cost.

Investing your time wisely, in a flight simulator will allow you to learn and practice those techniques that can be easily transferred to a real plane at a drastically reduced cost.

Why don’t traditional schools push flight simulator training more aggressively, if this is true?

(This is the part that will make a lot of traditional flight schools MAD!)

Training in a flight simulator doesn’t require a CFI (however, you will want a CFI for some of your sim training.) And, the hours that a CFI is training you on a simulator won’t count towards his/her hours.

Now you made most traditional schools MAD, don’t I have to train in a real airplane? Where would I do that?

Smart flight school owners realize that they will make more money if more students attend their schools and don’t look at us as competition that will take business away from them but as allies driving business to them. Our GoFly Sim Centers are located near airports. We carefully interviewed the flight schools that we recommend. Our goal is to empower more people to being pilots.

 Choose our Private Pilot Package to start your training.

Another advantage is, even though the FAA requires a CFI present for those 20 hours, you can practice as much as you want without a CFI present. Can’t do that in a real plane.

Caution: Traditional flight schools won’t push for you to obtain the 40 hours in the sim as opposed to an actual airplane.
Why don’t traditional schools push flight simulator training more aggressively, if this is true?
(This is the part that will make a lot of traditional flight schools MAD!)

It’s true that many flight schools have a flight simulator. Then, why don’t they have their students use a simulator if it could save them money? One of the biggest reasons is...you guessed it...MONEY. Money for the school. They make more money having you train in an airplane. Many schools lease the airplanes they use for training, so the owners of the airplanes only make money when the planes FLY. If their planes are not flying, they are not making money and they will move their plane somewhere that will make them money. Now, making money isn’t a bad thing. The problem is when you as a consumer loses out because you’re only given that option; the option that make the school the most money.

Another big reason is the CFI. 90% of CFI’s at a school have 1 goal...build hours so they could fly for the regionals or airliners. Everytime you’re in an airplane, a CFI has to accompany you in the “right seat.” Every hour you log for your training, in an airplane, the CFI can log towards their hours. Currently, in order to be a commercial pilot, you would need 250 hours. To be an ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) you would need 1,500 hours. But, aren’t the CFI’s really teaching because they love aviation and making $25/hr really is a great living? Not at all. They are focused on making $350/hr, someday. Or, at the very least, working as a private pilot making $200,000/yr plus. So, again, technically, it’s about money. But this time it’s for the CFI. Think about how expensive renting a plane is and you cannot get paid as a pilot, unless you have at least 250 hours and a commercial rating. (an IFR, Instrument Flight Rules, rating is required, in addition, if you plan on earning money transporting people.) By working at a flight school, the CFI can build his/her hours, all the while making some money.

Here’s a HUGE advantage: We have independent CFI’s available that are not looking to build hours for their own sake. You are also welcomed to hire any CFI you’d like. We also don’t profit from the CFI’s that train at our sim center, unlike traditional flight schools. Traditional flight schools charge, for example $65 per hour for a CFI. Part of that $65 goes to the CFI and the other part goes to the school. On average, you will spend almost double at a traditional flight school than using one of our CFI’s or hiring your own.

Now you made most traditional schools MAD, don’t I have to train in a real airplane? Where would I do that?

Smart flight school owners realize that they will make more money if more students attend their schools and don’t look at us as competition that will take business away from them but as allies driving business to them. Our GoFly Sim Centers are located near airports. We carefully interviewed the flight schools that we recommend. Our goal is to empower more people to being pilots.

Choose our IFR Rating Package to start your training.