Courses

  • 20 Lessons

    Basic Private Pilot Ground School

    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.
  • 3 Lessons

    Cross Wind Landings

    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.
  • 2 Lessons

    Flying in Alaska

    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.
  • 21 Lessons

    Premium 2025 Private Pilot Ground School

    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!
  • 4 Lessons

    Private Pilot Checkride Prep Crash Course

    This course combines everything you need on top of the regular ground school course to ensure you will Pass Your Checkride!
  • 13 Lessons

    Private Pilot Written Test Bootcamp!

    See the questions you'll see on your written test here first! Prepare to ACE your written exam by practicing real questions and calculations from the FAA Private Pilot Written Exam. Our students have a 100% pass rate when they complete our course. Do you want to pass your FAA written exam with ease? Click below to take this course!
  • 6 Lessons

    Reading Weather Basics

    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!
  • 26 Lessons

    Real World Pilot MasterClass

    Take this course and learn everything your instructor didn't teach you during flight training.  Learning everything you need to know in 40 hours or even 250 hours is near impossible.  Follow along with this journey from Alaska to Florida and all 50 states as we share our experiences (both good and bad) with you along the way.  Learn more about ATC, airspace, communications, decision making, weather, and everything else you could encounter on a trip across North America!
  • 4 Lessons

    Rusty Pilot / BFR Prep Course

    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!
  • 6 Lessons

    Ski Flying Course

    Our online airplane ski flying course is broken down into 7 sections consisting of video and picture-based lessons to help you visualize what flying on skis will be like.  All filming is done in Alaska flying off everything from airports, backcountry strips, frozen lakes, glaciers, and more.
  • 3 Lessons

    Spin Awareness

    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.
  • 4 Lessons

    Tailwheel Training Course

    In this course you will get an introduction to the operation of tailwheel/taildragger aircraft while taxiing, taking off, and landing, as well as the ground knowledge to prep you for flying one of these awesome aircraft!
  • 2 Lessons

    Weather Refresher IFR / VFR

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  • 11 Lessons

    WeatherXplore Lessons

    10 short weather lessons with real-world scenarios of weather you may encounter as a General Aviation pilot!
  • 1 Lesson

    Would You Crash This Airplane?

    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.