How is Pilot Training Organized?
Pilot training is divided into two distinct but related process–groundschool and air instruction. Groundschool prepares students for the Transport Canada qualification examinations, while air instruction prepares students for the Transport Canada qualfication flight tests. The groundschool side is inexpensive, fun, but a considerable amount of work, while the air instruction side is expensive, fun, but comparitively easy. Groundschool is conducted normally in a classroom setting, while air instruction is conducted in–you guessed it–the aircraft. Groundschool provides approximatley 90 hours of class time, while the flight training portion provides between 45 and 80 hours of aircraft flight training. Groundschool is composed of a series of sections, each of which focuses on a particular subject related to flying and each of which concludes with an in-class quiz; air instruction focuses on a series of prescribed air exercises–generally, the Flight Instructor demonstrates and explains
