If you want to come to Australia to learn flying, in this video, you
will learn the simple steps to become a pilot with an Australia licence.
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This is Jane.
I am a flying instructor, charter pilot and skydiving jump pilot in Australia.
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So, a little bit about.
I came to Australia in 2012 as an international student and completed
my bachelor degree in aviation along with commercial pilot licence and
multi engine instrument rating in 2015.
Then I work as a pilot ever since.
If you are already in Australia studying something else, but also want to learn flying on the side,
check out my other videos about where you can learn flying and get a pilot licence
what pilot licence you can get in Australia and how to choose the best flying school for yourself
If you want to come to Australia and learn flying only,
these are the time stamps of all the steps I am going to talk about, feel free to
jump around, otherwise, I would really appreciate you watch the whole video.
By the way, all the links you see in this video will be in the description below.
Let's get into it.
Step 1.
Find a visa to come and stay in Australia.
Just like any other countries, they only allow their own permanent
residents and citizens to go in and out of the countries freely.
Any other people who want to visit, study or work in Australia,
will need a visa to be here.
You can visit the home affair website for more detail about the visa options.
To learn to fly in Australia, the most popular visa will be
student visa, subclass 500.
Personally I had a student visa for the time when I was doing
my bachelor degree in Australia.
It was pretty easy to get by applying it yourself or using an agent.
I would recommend IDP as your education consultant.
They know their stuff with the whole application process with the school
of your choice and student visa.
Step 2.
Find a school to learn to fly.
To find a school that is eligible for a student visa, you can visa this website,
So this is the website you can go to, to find out which schools
are eligible for student visa and also provide flight training.
So as you can see on this page is based on what state.
So if you do have a state you want to live in and study.
You can choose that you can also type in the course name.
So I suggest the course name can be just type in aviation or commercial
pilot license, or just pilot.
And you go from there.
Then the next one you can choose is based on what type of courses you
want to go for. In Australia, you can find bachelor degree in aviation.
You can also find diploma of Aviation as well.
And I'm not sure about other stuff, but that is mainly
the two that you can go for.
And that, or this option, you don't need to worry about that.
So let's say for example, you want to go to New South Wales, to live
so automatically it will show up
where is New South Wales on the map.
Then let's say I search aviation, I already pre type it and I
want to do a bachelor degree.
So let's search that and then I will start the search.
And now, as you can see here is show up three course.
So you can do bachelor of aviation (flying).
Bachelor of aviation management and bachelor of commerce,
bachelor of aviation management.
As for learning to fly it to become a pilot.
Obviously you need to go for bachelor of aviation flying stream with
UNSW and that's the only school you can choose in New South Wales.
Let's try
Melbourne, which is Victoria.
Again, I keep the aviation and bachelor degree.
Let's see what we get.
So now we have more choices.
So mainly you have to university, you can choose, I believe
they both provide flight training.
Again, make sure you do the research to see if the syllabus
includes flight training.
Let's say I don't want to do any degrees.
I just want a diploma or some sort, and I don't care if I live
anywhere, so let's choose nothing.
So which means that is the whole Australia.
Let's go for a diploma.
So now you can see there's a lot more options that you can choose.
First of all, make sure you check the actual course name.
What exactly is that diploma course for?
For example, if you can see here, diploma of aviation
commercial part license helicopter.
So are you wanting to learn helicopter or fixed wing?
Normally they will say helicopter or aeroplane.
So as you can see here, diploma of aviation commercial
pilot license, aeroplane.
So that is definitely for aeroplane.
And this one is definitely for helicopter.
Also, you have diploma of aviation instrument rating as well.
You can also do instructor rating with the diploma of aviation flight instructor.
So if you keep looking through, basically, this is all the courses you can find
and all the course you can enroll in.
So from what I can see here, for diploma of aviation, you can choose commercial
pilot license, aeroplane, or helicopter.
You can also choose instrument, rating and flight instructor.
Let's say, if we click into one of the course.
So it gives you the details about the course.
So you have the course name, course sector, and course code and all this code.
And also tell you what field is that.
So the most important thing is the tuition fee here. According to the information here.
If you want to do a commercial pilot license, aeroplane,
it will cost you $70,000.
But this is based on that.
You never repeat any flight.
You pass everything in first go.
Sometime it only include a flight training fee, so it doesn't include
any other theory exam fee.
So you actually need to pay extra to do the theory exam.
If you fell once, twice need to do three times for the exam,
you need to pay it yourself.
On top of the $70,000.
Also, you can have a look of the cost location to give
you the details about that.
You can also see the details of the organization.
You can also see the contact details as well as specifically
say international student contact.
So you can definitely
try and talk to those people, email them.
If you want more information, let's compare to doing a degree.
So see how much difference is there.
So for a bachelor degree, again, I don't care about where I am.
So this is all the university degree that I can do, but not all the
degree includes flight training.
So make sure you actually look for that. For example,
bachelor of aviation technology.
Pretty sure it doesn't include flight training.
So the next one, bachelor of aviation commercial pilot.
So that's pretty obvious.
It will include flight training.
If you come down here, bachelor of science, aviation from ECU,
pretty sure it doesn't include flight training, or if you come down here,
bachelor of aviation and piloting.
So there's another obvious course that will provide flight training,
bachelor of aviation flying, pretty obvious.
Bachelor of aviation management.
So obviously that is for management only and bachelor of aviation
pilot, again pretty obvious.
So let's go into the bachelor of aviation flying from UNSW.
That was the degree that I did back in 2013.
And I graduated in 2015.
Again, give you all the details, give you a map where the campus is.
So now you can see the tuition fee go up to $145,200.
And also there is a non- tuition fee is $3,000.
I don't know what is that.
So that will give you a total cost of $148,000, basically double of
the diploma of aviation for CPL, however, for the university course,
it will give you the CPL and also the instrument rating as well.
So for the diploma of aviation instrument rating, that is $21,000.
And a CPL that is $70,000.
So that's basically what you can do to find a school that
provide flight training.
You can choose a bachelor degree or a diploma.
You can also choose the location that you want to live in and study, and
you can also choose what courses you want to go for to minimize the cost.
Or you want to get more out of it from a bachelor degree.
Step 3. Start preparing the documents of your student visa.
You can use the document checklist tool to learn what documents you
need to apply for a student visa.
Personally I will not give you any advise on visa application
since I am not a professional.
I went through 2 student visas with IDP, they gave me all the guidances
I need to prepare the documents and help me to apply for the visa as well.
So, up to you, either you do your research and apply it yourself or go for an agent.
One thing I will talk about is the English language requirements, for
most university, they require you to have a certain level of English to make
sure you can keep up with the course.
Most of the school accept IELTS academic, some accepts both IELTS and PTE academic.
However, you should do the IELTS.
At some point of your flight training, you will need to do a general English
language proficiency assessment.
If you haven't been studying or working in Australia or any English
speaking country, the easiest way to prove your English level is an
English language proficiency test.
Civil aviation safety authority only accepts these English test, such as IELTS.
and PTE is not one of them.
If you do IELTS, you will meet the requirements for
both the university and CASA.
Two birds, one stone.
For example, UNSW only accepts IELTS result with 6.5 overall and min 6
for all subjects, those are reading, writing, listening and speaking.
For CASA requirement, they only accept IELTS result with 5.5
overall and min 5 for all subjects.
Also, IELTS only valid for 2 years, some schools do accept result up to 3 years,
but never assume, do your research.
Step 4.
Book your flight and come to Australia.
Once you get your visa approved, you can come to Australia
and start your pilot journey.
That's all the fun and hard work start.
If you want to know more about studying in Australia, check out
these two videos from internash.
They are very informative.
That's it for this video.
If you have more questions, comment down below.
Thank you for watching.
I will see you next time.