Flight Training
The PPL course offers you the training and experience you need to captain a light aircraft. We offer a normal route and an accelerated route, by which you could gain your PPL Licence in approximately 4 weeks. The accelerated route is an intensive course and would require a full time commitment.
UK PPL(A) Airplane
The PPL course requires a minimum of forty-five hours flying time (including ten hours of solo flight) culminating in a flight skills test with an examiner. The skills test will examine your general handling and navigation. In addition, there are nine written exams (covering a range of topics such as human performance, principles of flight and meteorology), a practical radio operator’s exam and a medical exam with a CAA-approved doctor.
The PPL Licence allows to you to pilot any non-complex single-engine aircraft in reasonable to good weather within the limits of VFR (visual flying rules).
IMC Rating
The IMC rating allows holders to fly in Instrument Meteorological Conditions within the boundaries of UK airspace. It permits the holder to be far more flexible in the type of weather he or she wishes to fly in.
The course consists of a minimum of 15 hours, all dual instruction, with a written examination and skill test. The pilot must have completed 25 hours post-PPL flying before the rating can be issued . 10 of these must be PIC.
Night rating
A Night Rating would allow you to fly after sunset (which can be quite useful during the winter months).
A further five hours of training is required to achieve the Night Rating. If you have an EASA pilot's licence you can add night ratings to allow you to fly in visual flight rules (VFR) conditions at night.
Night in the UK is from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise, but is defined nationally in each ICAO country.
