TRAINING PROGRAMS

Flight training at AirQuest Aviation is provided by competent and capable instructors who take your dreams seriously! Our instructors utilize the latest in aircraft technology and safety procedures. Whether you're a business person looking to increase your reach, a hobbyist who has always wanted to fly, or an aspiring professional pilot, AirQuest Aviation can do it all!

Private Pilot

The most basic of licenses, the private pilot license allows a pilot to operate any aircraft in the single engine land category. The private pilot license can be used for business or pleasure, but you cannot get paid to fly the airplane. The private pilot course is available under our Part 61 Course. Your training will be comprised of two parts - flight training and ground school.

During your ground school, you'll learn bits of "book knowledge" you'll need to be a proficient pilot. The goal is to successfully complete your aviation written test.

First phase of your Private Pilot Training is to prepare you to fly a solo flight. Within a couple of lessons and your instructor's approval, you could be up in the sky by yourself with between 10 to 15 hours of training. Second Phase is flying to different airports which are at least 50 miles away, with your instructor. You and your instructor will fly 2 or 3 of these flights to prepare you for the third phase of your training, solo cross-country flights. After your cross-country training, your instructor will look over your route of flight for each solo cross-country flights. Once this is complete, you will be ready for the fourth and final phase, preparation for the FAA Checkride. With all of your combined flight time of solo flight and instruction, you will need 40 hours total flight time to be eligible for your Private Pilots License. With that, there is nothing that can stop you from going anywhere.

Course Eligibility: No prior aviation experience required. Applicant must have reached their 17th birthday prior to graduation and have a minimum Class 3 medical certificate.

Completion Requirements Include:

• At least 40 hours flight time, of which 20 must be dual (with instructor) and 10 must be solo
• 70% or Better Score on FAA Written Exam.
• Successful Completion of the FAA Practical Test.

Instrument Rating

Often quoted as being the most challenging and rewarding flying pilots ever do, the instrument rating gives the pilot the ability to navigate more precisely in good weather and fly safely through the bad. Pilots learn to handle the aircraft more precisely with reference to the inside gauges instead of purely looking out the window.

Sometimes the training required for an Instrument Rating and the value of possessing it are misunderstood. First of all, it is not a license to fly in the clouds. Quite the contrary, it's the best way to stay out of them. Most IFR pilots will tell you that it is hard to log "actual" because they don't get any. Another misconception is that the goal of an Instrument approach is to find the airport . . . not true, in reality the objective is to get into "visual" conditions.

A lot of pilots quit instrument training thinking that it's to demanding. Unfortunately they believed that they could learn it like they did their Private training. IFR training isn't more difficult, but it does require more sophistication. It's really a mental discipline that requires an experienced instructor, a "system" and a good simulator. At AirQuest Aviation we have an FAA certified simulator (Elite - PI135) that allows the student to log time toward their instrument rating.

Course Eligibility: To begin training for your Instrument Rating, you must have at least a Private Pilot certificate and a third class FAA medical.

Completion Requirements Include:

• 50 Hours PIC Cross-Country.
• 40 hours Actual Or Simulated Instrument; Minimum 15 hours dual from a CFII, A maximum of 20 hours can be performed in a flight training device, 3 hours prep within 60 days of Practical Test.
• 250 Nautical Miles IFR Cross-Country.
• 70% or Better Score on FAA Written Exam.
• Successful Completion of the FAA Practical Test.

Multi-Engine Rating

The multi engine rating allows pilots to operate as pilot-in-command of an aircraft with more than one engine. The multi-engine rating can be added to a private pilot license either with or without instrument privileges (if you hold them already) or to a commercial pilot license, either as an initial or add-on.

Course Eligibility: To enroll in the Multi Engine Rating Course, you must hold a valid Private Pilot Certificate with an airplane category rating and a single engine land class rating. To add Instrument privileges in the multi engine aircraft, the student must hold a current instrument rating. The Private pilot must hold a valid third class medical certificate. Finally, you must complete an oral and flight test covering items selected by the FAA designated examiner.

Completion Requirements Include: There is no hourly requirement or written examination, however you must pass a check ride with an FAA designated examiner or FAA examiner.

Commercial Pilot

Are you longing to fly for the airlines, be a fire bomber, crop duster, flight instructor or skywriter? Well, these and hundreds of other flying careers have one thing in common: they all require a commercial pilot's certificate.

The Commercial license allows pilots to fly "for hire" and get paid for their services. All fight instructors are required to have a commercial license.

Even if you don't want to use your wings to earn your paycheck, commerical training gives you the skills to fly complex aircraft with the precision and safety margins that airline passengers have come to take for granted.

In addition to the maneuvers you mastered while earning your private pilot certificate and instrument rating, you will learn additional, maximum performance maneuvers such as the chandelle, lazy-8 and eights-on-pylons. This training will build your precision, coordination, planning, orientation and overall smoothness on the controls. After your training, short field and crosswind landings will be a breeze!

Course Eligibility: Commercial single engine you must hold a valid Private Pilot Certificate and a Second Class Medical

Completion Requirements Include:

• 250 Hours Total Time As A Pilot
• 10 Hours Dual In A Complex Airplane
• 50 Hours Of PIC Cross Country Time
• 5 Hours Night Flight Time
• 70% or Better Score On The Commercial Pilot Written Exam
• Successful Completion Of The FAA Practical Test

Flight Instructor - CFI, CFII, & MEI

Are you a natural leader? Are you the patient, mentoring type of person that always seems to be answering somebody's questions? Do you aspire to a career as an airline pilot? Can you handle the responsibility of creating a new generation of aviators?

If so, you may have what it takes to become a flight instructor. The Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Certificate allows you to act as an extension of the FAA. As a CFI, you become responsible for training and certifying pilots who will then go forward and operate within the nation's airspace. One of the many bonuses of being a CFI is that each hour of flight instruction you give may be logged as pilot-in-command (PIC) time.

Your ground lessons will focus on learning the fundamentals of instruction, creating lesson plans and practicing how to teach. You will also review all of the responsibilities and privileges of the CFI and perfect your knowledge of all the material needed to work with primary and advanced students. Your flight training will encompass learning to fly from the right seat, and perfecting your performance of the required maneuvers for the CFI practical test.

With a flight instructor certificate, commercial pilots can expand their employment opportunities by teaching others to learn to fly in airplanes or helicopters. From private pilot to multi-engine students, flight instructors build time and experience while sharing their knowledge with people.

Course Eligibility - Certified Flight Instructor: An applicant for the flight instructor certificate must be at least 18 years of age, read speak and converse fluently in English, have a second class medical certificate and hold an Instrument rating and a Commercial or Airline Transport Pilot Certificate with an aircraft rating appropriate to the Flight Instructor Rating sought.

Completion Requirements Include: Prior to completion, the student must pass two FAA Written Exams: Fundamentals of Instructing and Flight Instructor Airplane. Finally, you must complete an oral and flight test covering items selected by the FAA designated examiner. These may include the demonstration or instruction of FAA regulations regarding privileges and limitations of a private and commercial pilot, basic and advanced aerodynamics, complex aircraft operations and safety of flight, maximum performance takeoffs and landings, advanced flight maneuvers.

Course Eligibility - Certified Flight Instructor Instrument: To become an Instrument Flight Instructor, you must be at least 18 years of age, read, speak and converse fluently in English, have a second class medical certificate and hold a valid Flight Instructor Certificate. In addition, you must have at least 15 hours as pilot in command in the category and class of aircraft appropriate to the rating you are trying to achieve.

Completion Requirements Include: Prior to graduation, you must pass an FAA written exam. Finally, you must complete an oral and flight test covering items selected by the FAA designated examiner. These may include the demonstration or instruction of FAA regulations governing IFR conditions, IFR navigation, weather theory, control and maneuvering the aircraft by reference to the instruments, and cross-country flight under simulated or actual IFR conditions, the use of IFR charts and instrument approach procedures, performing instrument approaches, response to emergencies involving instrument malfunctions, lost communications, unusual attitude recovery, and deviation to alternate airports.

Course Eligibility - Multi-Engine Instructor: A Multi-Engine Flight Instructor must be at least 18 years of age, read speak and converse fluently in English, have a second class medical certificate, and hold a valid Flight Instructor Certificate. In addition, you must have at least 15 hours as pilot in command in the category and class of aircraft appropriate to the rating.

Completion Requirements Include: With the Multi-Engine Rating and Flight Instructor Course, there is no FAA written exam required. You must complete an oral and flight test covering items selected by the FAA designated examiner. These may include the demonstration or instruction of FAA regulations regarding privileges and limitations of a private and commercial pilot, basic and advanced aerodynamics, multi-engine aircraft operations and safety of flight, maximum performance takeoffs and landings, advanced flight maneuvers.

Airline Transport Pilot

Are you a commercially licensed pilot with more than 1500 hours of total flight experience? Do you have your heart set on a career flying for the airlines or commanding corporate aircraft? If so, you are a candidate for the PhD of aviation: the Airline Transport Pilot certificate. In order to act as captain on aircraft operated under CFR Part 121 (airlines), you must have the ATP certificate. While not required by law, most corporate flight departments expect that their captains have an ATP.

While the ATP is offered in most classes of aircraft, it is customary to get your ATP in multi-engine aircraft because that is what most airlines and corporate flight departments operate.

Our most experienced instructors will work with you to ensure that your aeronautical knowledge and flight skills meet ATP standards. Crew resource management (CRM) is so critical to safe aircraft operation that AirQuest Aviation incorporates it into our basic procedures and emphasizes it especially in our ATP training.

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