JAA Student - Structured Training

• Key Benefits
• Introduction
• Flight Training
• Ground Training
• Examinations and Tests
• Duration and Dates
• Validity
• Prospectus

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The ‘module One’ course is a highly structured training programme designed to provide the experience and operational capability necessary to transition efficiently to the JAA modular training for the JAA CPL/ IR (ME). The JAA license is paramount for pilots who hope to work in Europe today. The joint aviation authorities which together create the Joint Aviation Authority (JAA) set the standard and joint aviation requirements for today’s professional pilots in many areas.

Key Benefits

• Modern and well equipped Piper Warrior III and Piper Seminole aircraft
• Course is structured to achieve high proficiency in navigation and general handling
• Training is efficient and seamless from ab-initio to the beginning of the JAA modules
• Varied topography and weather conditions provide valuable experience of different operations
• Rules and Flight Procedures are ICAO, so that ATC procedures, flight plans, altimeter setting procedures are close to JAA (unlike the USA)
• Competitive all inclusive course price including accommodation

Introduction

The aim of the Module One course is to train the ab-initio student pilot to a high level of competency in navigation and general handling of single engine and multi-engine aircraft, and to provide the flight experience and qualifications necessary to proceed with the JAA modules for the groundschool, IR and CPL. The flight training is highly structured and follows the same syllabus as the Progress Flight Academy CPL/ IR (ME) course.

Piper Warrior

Graduates of the flight school will hold a South African Private Pilot Licence with Night Rating and Multi-engine Land Class rating, and the Restricted Radiotelephony Operator’s Certificate. This licence may be used in the UK for visual flight by day, for entrance to the JAA ATPL exams, and for the JAA CPL and IR tests; so you will not need to obtain a JAA PPL.

The module ‘One’ course provides flight training and experience which meets or exceed the JAR-FCL solo requirements:

1. ICAO Private Pilot Licence
2. Night rating
3. Multi-engine rating
4. Total 155 flight hours in aeroplanes, plus 5 in a simulator (FNPT I).
5. Solo flight hours required for modular JAR-FCL CPL/ IR
1. 100 hours Pilot-in-Command
2. 50 hours Pilot-in-Command cross-country, including
3. 300 nm solo navigation route
4. 10 hours Pilot-in-Command night

We are very flexible in meeting the individual requirements of students. Contact us if you already have flight time logged.

Flight Training

The first ten weeks of the course are devoted to obtaining the Private Pilot Licence. A separate specification sheet covers the PPL in detail. A consolidation phase follows during which further general handling and day cross-country solo flights and the Night Rating are completed on the Piper Warrior III.  

Piper Seminole

The Multi-engine Class and Type training is very comprehensive; a total of 11 hours flight time on the Piper PA44 Seminole is planned for the conversion, which includes dual instruction and the MEL Class test.  The student then flies four hours solo consolidation.  This solo time is very important to the development of the student’s confidence and self esteem.

Ground Training

The Private Pilot Licence groundschool is to the JAA PPL syllabus, and covers the basics of Human Factors, Meteorology, Aviation Law, Navigation, Flight Planning and Performance, Engines and Airframes, Principles of Flight and the syllabus for the Radiotelephony Certificate (Aeronautical).

The theoretical training proceeds in parallel with the flight training for the Private Pilot Licence. It is a combination of 72 hours of lectures and 80 hours of assignments and individual study. The lectures average three hours per day over five weeks; the syllabus and tests are comprehensive yet practical.

Examinations and Tests

We are a CAA approved test centre so all CAA PPL examinations and tests are written on-line at Progress. The examinations are single subject papers, and all questions have multiple choice answers. The examinations are completed progressively throughout the course.  There is also a written examination and a practical test for the Radiotelephony Certificate.

The PPL General Flight Test takes about one hour during which the various manoeuvres covered in the training syllabus are demonstrated; and there is a separate Navigation Flight Test. The Night Rating Test is also about one hour; it involves instrument flight on full and limited panel, and night handling.

The Multi-engine Class test is just over one hour, and concentrates primarily on asymmetric handling. There is a written type rating examination for the PA44.

Duration and Dates

Courses commence every six weeks on the same dates as the PPL courses. Duration is 16 weeks. Candidates who already have a South African PPL may commence at any time.

Validity

Private Pilot licences are valid for an initial period of one year, after which a Flight Test is required.  Thereafter it is valid for as long as the medical certificate, which is two years if age below 40, one year if age 40 or over.  A Flight Test is required every second year.

The privileges of a South African PPL may be exercised in some countries (i.e. UK, USA) for visual flight by day.

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