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Hey everyone, Jason Schappert, here
of MzeroA.com, & we often get asked, how do
I become a pilot? See, it's really not as difficult
as it may seem, but the stats are there to scare us away.
In fact, 80% of students who start their training
don't end up finishing. However, by finding this video you're at a huge
advantage. Let's first start by learning the basics
requirements: First you must be at least 16 years
of age to solo, 17 years of age on the day
of your checkride. We'll talk about that checkride in a moment
You need the FAA minimum of 40 hours
in an airplane, 20 of those hours need to be
instruction time, and 10 of those hours need to be solo time. Now that
is the FAA bare minimums, however, the
stats they don't tell you is the national average is it takes the
average student around 75 hours to complete
their private pilot certificate, so the FAA may
advertise 40 hours is the minimum, but the national average is 75
hours. We're going to talk about how to reduce that rate
quite a bit. Next, you must take and pass the
FAA Knowledge test, sometimes called the written test.
This is an ABC multiple choice test of 60 questions
you must earn a 70 percent or better, and you
must be endorsed by an FAA certificated flight instructor to take
that test, that's something we do for all of our online ground school members.
I actually provide you with that endorsement to go take that test.
One disadvantage I was at, I was doing all the flying, I had no clue
there was even a written test, a knowledge test, I wasn't studying
I was just flying the airplane, but there's so much ground study that needs
to be done. Next, you must pass an FAA
checkride, this is a flight with what's called a designated
pilot examiner, someone designated by the FAA,
you fly with that individual in the right seat and they ask you demonstrate all your
abilities, cross country flying, your maneuvers, your landings, your
knowledge, there is a ground portion & there is a flight portion.
During the ground portion, they're going to quiz you for about an hour and a half, two
hours, then they'll take you up for a flight again about an hour and a half two hours,
it's a very long day, it can be a very challenging test here.
But after that you are a certificated private pilot,
How much should you expect to pay? Well, one thing people
don't tell you is, whether you fly in an old Cessna 150
or you fly in that beautiful brand new Cirrus, both fantastic air
craft, but very different price ranges on those aircraft.
You'll end up with the same private pilot certificate at the end day.
It doesn't say what kind of airplane you flew for your private pilot certificate,
so keep that in mind. But national averages we're seeing spent
around $8-11,000 for a
private pilot certificate, alot of that depends on what you fly & how often
you fly, now some ways to save money on this, the
first & best way to save money is to learn everything you can
on the ground, the airplane is a terrible classroom,
study & learn everything you can on the ground and then demonstrate
it up in the air is the best way to truly accomplish that,
the other thing is to fly more frequently, studies have found that
flying two to three times per week will drastically reduce
how much money is spent, it will be more money initially,
but if you're flying only once a month, once every two weeks, you're just going to extend it out
and that principal of disuse sneaks in & you end forgetting things
Did you know the national checkride pass average
is just 77%, however, most
members of our online ground school, we have a pass your checkride or
we'll pay for it guarantee, and we are proud to have a 99
percent pass average, listen, if you're interested in getting started
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Enjoy the rest of your day, & most importantly remember:
That A Good Pilot Is Always Learning, have a great day guys we'll see ya.
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