| Flight Training in the US | | | | language. The better the English and reading skills the |
| If you are an international flight training student thinking | | | | more money the student saves because learning is |
| about doing your flight training in the US you have | | | | faster and not as much work. |
| some unique challenges. This is a great place to train | | | | Besides being able to speak English as with all |
| because of the climate and the cost of training is | | | | international arrivals in the US, the student must get a |
| generally lower here. | | | | VISA to enter the country and study. Plus, international |
| One of the problems that international (non US) | | | | pilot candidates must visit the Transportation Security |
| residents have is actually getting the attention of the | | | | Administrations website and be approved to enter the |
| flight school here. The reason is that so many people | | | | US for the purpose of pilot study. |
| are interested and so many of those people never | | | | Additionally most US flight schools do not fully |
| start training. So this means that US flight schools have | | | | understand the rules and regulations of being hired as |
| thousands of inquires per month and are not able to | | | | a commercial pilot in the country in which the student |
| easily determine who is really interested and who is | | | | wishes to begin flying. So the some of this research |
| not. | | | | must be done on the part of the student or learned |
| Pilot Journey has a program called FlyUSA which | | | | from membership in FlyUSA. |
| solves this problem though. Because when international | | | | The last very important item is that there are dishonest |
| flight students join the FlyUSA program they get a | | | | and under capitalized flight schools that do not deliver |
| member number to use when communicating with US | | | | on what they promise. And since the international |
| flight schools. | | | | student may not know the success rate or other |
| Other issues that international students might face are | | | | students of the flight school they wish to attend it can |
| dealing with the fact that in order to be a pilot all pilot | | | | be difficult to do the research to protect the |
| candidates much read write and speak the English | | | | investment in an aviation education. |