Private Pilot Courses
Below you will find all of our online courses for Private Pilots. We recommend beginning with our Online Private Pilot Ground School, and then taking the Private Pilot Written Prep Bootcamp to help you prepare for your FAA written exam. All of our Private Pilot courses and be accessed with the Silver level membership or higher. You can also purchase individual courses here.
$149
This course combines everything you need on top of the regular ground school course to ensure you will Pass Your Checkride!
Enrolled
10 real world weather lessons regarding common weather you may encounter as a General Aviation pilot!
$49
In this course we'll take you through a few quick brief refreshers for those of you who are getting ready for a Flight Review with an instructor, whether you fly regularly or even if it has been 10 years since you've been in the cockpit!
Free
This course is a compilation of our Alaska series videos as it relates to airspace around the Anchorage area as well as the unique weather products offered in Alaska. From special airspace procedures to watching webcams to determine the weather, this course is meant as an addendum to our Private Pilot Ground School offered here at fly8ma.com, or to help aviators who already hold a certificate and are visiting Alaska from the Lower 48 or Canada.
$149
Get everything you need to know to pass your written and jumpstart your flight training in this course!
$69
Learn the basics of tailwheel aircraft operations for takeoffs, landings, and taxiing. This course covers: Taxing, Soft and Short Field Takeoffs, Soft and Short Field Landings, Slips, Flap Usage, etc.
Enrolled
Take this course and see if you have the skills to avoid a fatal accident. Follow through with us step by step as the accident chain develops, and see if you have the ADM skills to say STOP before its too late.
Silver Membership
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$349
This course will cover the basic knowledge required of a private pilot to pass the Private Pilot Airplane written exam, and will prepare you for your flight training in an actual aircraft with your flight instructor. You will be able to skip through the lessons as you wish to focus on the topics you would like to review the most!
Enrolled
Learn the basics of Spins and more importantly how to avoid them! You'll learn a lot more about angle of attack and stalls, then see a full preflight brief with student and instructor before watching what they actually look like in the airplane and learning the proper general recovery techniques.
Flight Engineer
In this course we'll cover the basics of reading weather forecasts and observations:
METARs
TAFs
FAs (area forecasts)
You'll learn the basics of how to read the coded text of weather forecasts, and the important information about each individual weather product you need to know for your written exam and checkride!
Enrolled
This course will cover the basic knowledge required of a private pilot to pass the Private Pilot Airplane written exam, and will prepare you for your flight training in an actual aircraft with your flight instructor.
It is broken up into LESSONS, and each LESSON has several TOPICS.
Flight Engineer+
Understand how to control the aircraft during takeoff, approach, and landing with crosswinds. In this 30 minute compact course. You'll get the basics of flying when the winds just aren't quite blowing in your favor.