aviation training
Learning to fly
Aviation training is instruction in the skills and knowledge required for flight operations.
It encompasses everything from basic pilot certification to specialized programs for commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, and aircraft mechanics.
Ground school covers theory—aerodynamics, navigation, regulations—while flight training provides hands-on cockpit experience: She completed her aviation training in eighteen months.
Military aviation training typically involves more intensive combat and tactical elements.
- ground schoolPre-flight aviation education
- flight planningPre-departure navigation work
- flight simulationArtificial piloting experience
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
- aerodynamicsPhysics of air motion
climb · emergency evacuation · landing techniques · touch and go · go around · risk assessment · pilot · cockpit · logbook · preflight check · radio · checklist · instructor · safety drills · radar systems · landing · altimeter · takeoff
- military trainingfield manual, drill instructor, combat drills, drilling, drill weekend
- naval trainingnaval academy, seamanship, drill commands, naval ranks, midshipman
- Colorado WWIIski troops, internment camps
- school programsAP, honors, scholarship, honors program, AP classes
- Coast Guard trainingboot camp, seamanship, navigation skills, water survival, boat handling
- military academiesmilitary academy, Annapolis, Sandhurst, cadets, VMI
aviation trainingpassenger experience
passenger transport · sightseeing flight · joyride · commercial flight
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