Flight training
Everything on the site for someone learning to fly or teaching it: what it takes and costs, where to train, the ground school, the test and the medical, and the work afterwards.
Learn to fly
How to become a pilot, and what it costs
The steps from a first lesson to a private pilot licence, the hours most people need, and the cost at this year's prices.
Choosing a flight school
Part 61 or Part 141, school, club or college, and what to check before you pay.
Online ground schools, compared
The book half of the licence, at your own pace: price, access and guarantee, side by side.
Find a school
Flight schools, clubs and college programmes 2,410
Every training organisation the register shows, with its aircraft, its airport and its safety record; pick a state to compare its schools side by side.
The test and the medical
Pilot examiners
The FAA's designated examiners who give the checkride, by state and town, with what each tests for.
Aviation medical examiners
The doctors who issue the FAA medical certificate, by state and town.
The work
Flight instructor jobs
Openings at the schools on this site, read from their own websites.
Pilot jobs and what they pay
Every kind of aviation opening, with the national pay figures for each occupation.