What is Ground School?
Learning to fly is divided into two parts, ground training and flight training. Your ground training teaches you the principles, procedures, and regulations you will put into practice in an airplane– such as how a wing generates lift, how to navigate from one airport to another, and in what kind of weather you can fly. Before you can earn a pilot certificate, you must pass a computerized FAA knowledge test (with a score of at least 70 percent) on this information. Ground training used to be (and sometimes still is) taught as a classroom course over several weeks. But the more modern approach that Lone Star Flyers uses a computer-based instruction kit that is both an entertaining and easy to use ground training course on CD-ROMs that you can work at your own pace, in the comfort of your home or office. Each lesson includes full-motion video instruction, interactive quizzes, and an in-cockpit video preview of the corresponding flight in your course syllabus–helping to make your flight
Flight training is divided into two parts, ground school and flight training. Ground school teaches you the principles, procedures, and regulations. The FAA recognizes the importance of ground school hence the FAA qualification “Advanced Ground Instructor” (AGI) and what you learn in the classroom environment with a qualified instructor, helps greatly in understanding the principles long before you get to the aircraft. Any reputable flight school has a flight training course that encompasses an element of classroom ground school, taught by instructors who are qualified, capable and willing. Remember that once the aircraft engine starts up, you start paying and that’s certainly not the environment to start learning principles and procedures, great for the unscrupulous instructor though as you’re paying for his time also. The classroom is the place to learn principles & procedures, the cockpit is where you put that learning into practice. Thorough preflight and post flight briefings (at
