PHASE 1: FAMILIARISATION EXERCISES AND FOUNDATION
  • Air experience: the first lesson
  • Component parts, controls and systems of the aircraft
  • Preparation for flight and actions after flight
  • Effects of controls
  • Taxiing
PHASE 2: THE BASIC FLIGHT MANOEUVRES
  • Straight and level flight
  • Basic climbing and descending
  • Performance climbing and descending
  • Turning flight
  • Climbing and descending turns
PHASE 3: SLOW SPEED HANDLING
  • Critically slow airspeed
  • Stalling, and spin avoidance
PHASE 4: TAKE-OFF, LANDING AND CIRCUIT FLYING
  • Circuit training
  • Advanced take-off and landing techniques
PHASE 5: ADVANCED HANDLING
  • Advanced turning
  • Unusual attitudes
PHASE 6: HAZARDS AND EMERGENCIES
  • Forced landings
  • Precautionary landings
  • Operation at minimum level
  • Action in the event of an engine/cockpit fire
  • Systems failure
PHASE 7: SOLO FLIGHT TRAINING
  • First Solo
  • Solo circuit
  • local area orientation and general handling consolidation
PHASE 8: VFR NAVIGATION
  • Pre-flight planning
  • En-route navigation
  • Departure and arrival
  • Navigation at minimum level and/or in deteriorating conditions
  • Unsure of position and lost procedures
PHASE 9: PREPARATION FOR THE GENERAL SKILLS TEST AND
GROUND ORAL EXAM
  • Dual revision for GST
  • Revision for the ground oral exam
  • Documentation review