Originally Posted by
777Supremecist
Hello everyone, I am about to (hopefully) enroll in a flight school very soon, I am going to a European flight school under EASA. However, I hae some questions that I was hoping could be answered.
First of all: Can someone please explain me the structure of the flight school courses? Kinda like how you explain a kid about school: how he will go through Kindergarden - to board exams, what kind of grades he should get and what are the consequences he will face when he doesn't meet those expectations.
My father is a pilot as well, and he is rambling to me about all these things about "forzen-atpl", "type-rating", or some other weird flight school-related terminologies, and they're all going over my head.
Also what would be some advices for me? Ones that all of you fine gentlemen here, had to learn the hard way; so then I could avoid it? Thanks.
Firstly,
stop. You’re about to enrol in a flying school and you know
nothing about the process. Now clearly everyone builds their knowledge up from somewhere but to be about to start training without the knowledge yet is definitely unwise. You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into.
Presumably you want to be an airline pilot? Here’s some things I’d Google/ChatGPT as starters. It’s pointless trying to give you an entire overview as it’s so broad. Better for you to establish where you are and where you want to get to, then ask specifics here after.
- Modular vs integrated
- What is a type rating
- What is a frozen ATPL
- Class 1 medical (get this booked today)
Plenty of other topics to look at, don’t just pile into being a pilot because your dad did. Advice for the interview, it’s not just gentlemen that are allowed to do aeroplaning..!