| Like most of us once, we have decided to embark on | | | | via their tower. |
| an adventure, we are anxious to get right at it. It is no | | | | Once you start your research for locating a flight |
| different when it comes to one wanting to obtain their | | | | training school, you will encounter both approved and |
| private pilot's license. Once of the first questions you | | | | non approved schools. This does not mean that the |
| probably want to answer is how much of your time is | | | | non approved schools are inferior. There was a large |
| it going to take to achieve your goal. There is no one | | | | demand for pilots to carry out military operations as |
| answer to this. Its dependant on many factors. First, it | | | | well as a requirement for commercial pilots. This |
| depends on the location of your training and what is | | | | demand created the birth of the approved flight training |
| available. Are there several training facilities or just | | | | schools. Private Pilots remained and still do with the |
| one? Do they operate full time or part time? Is there a | | | | smaller non-approved flight training schools. The |
| waiting list to get in? These are all questions geared | | | | majority of these candidate want their private pilots |
| towards how long it will take. | | | | license for recreational use or in some cases small |
| Some of your decisions will structure the time frame. | | | | business endeavors. All schools no matter whether |
| For example do you want to learn to fly in a rural | | | | approved or non approved must adhere to the same |
| setting where there is not much traffic or are you | | | | certification standards and regulations. The most |
| going to opt for city training where there is high traffic | | | | noticeable difference between the two types of |
| volume. There are good and bad points to both | | | | Schools is the non-approved have small operating |
| scenarios. It would be ideal if you could have the best | | | | budgets so they tend to teach at smaller airfields with |
| of both worlds. Learning to fly in both a country setting | | | | most basic planes. They have smaller student quotas |
| as well as a city setting would certainly hone your skills | | | | and the instructors are not paid the high salaries found |
| as an upcoming pilot. | | | | at the approved schools. |
| If your training is taking place in the city, you are going | | | | When it comes down to how long it will actually take |
| to be dealing with multiple runways, numerous other | | | | you will primarily depend on whether you can donate a |
| planes and even navigating landings via the winds. | | | | full time schedule to your training or whether you can |
| These factors are not so evident in the rural setting. | | | | only intermittently attend training. In addition to this is |
| No matter which setting you choose you will still have | | | | available of room in the course. If flight training schools |
| to learn the same flying techniques and skills. FAA | | | | are scarce in your area then there maybe a waiting |
| regulations stipulate that you must be able to land and | | | | period to get in. |
| take off from a landing strip that has air traffic control | | | | |