Selecting a Pilot School
Most pilot schools in the Philippines will help you get your licenses and ratings.
A tiny minority will actually teach you how to fly safely.
Even at the pre-solo stage, the CAR's are quite specific with regard to what you need to know:
IS 2.3.3.1 STUDENT PILOTS - MANEUVERS AND PROCEDURES FOR PRE-SOLO
FLIGHT TRAINING
(a) A student pilot who is receiving training for solo flight shall receive and log flight
training for the following maneuvers and procedures, as applicable for each category
and class rating:
(1) Proper flight preparation procedures, including pre-flight planning and
preparation, power-plant operation and aircraft systems
(2) Taxiing, including run-ups
(3) Take-offs and landings, including normal and crosswind
(4) Straight and level flight and turns in both directions
(5) Climbs and climbing turns
(6) Airport traffic patterns including entry and departure procedures
(7) Collision avoidance, wind-shear avoidance and wake turbulence avoidance
(8) Descents, with and without turns, using high and low drag configurations
(9) Flight at various airspeeds from cruise to slow flight
(10) Stall entries from various flight attitudes and power combinations with recovery
initiated at the first indication of a stall and recovery from a full stall
(11) Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions
(12) Ground reference maneuvers
(13) Approaches to a landing area with simulated engine malfunctions
(14) Slips to a landing
(15) Go-around
Learning to fly is a building block process. Everything you do is dependent on what you have learned previously. If your fundamentals are flawed and left that way, you will be building your aviation castle on an unstable foundation.
Ask each flying school if you will be allowed to fly solo as required by the CAR's.
2.3.3.2 says, with regard to PPL applicants:
The applicant shall have completed in airplanes not less than 10 hours of solo
flight time under the supervision of an authorized flight instructor, including 5
hours of solo cross-country flight time with at least one cross-country flight totaling not less than 270 km (150 nm) in the course of which full-stop landings at two different aerodromes shall be made.
IS 2.2.8 says:
A student pilot may log as solo flight time only that flight time when the pilot is the sole occupant of the aircraft.
If anybody tells you otherwise, tell 'em to blow it out their a** and go look for a better school.
Last edited by M 0.78; 16th Oct 2009 at 23:52.