flight schools
Aviation instruction centers
Flight schools are institutions that train people to fly aircraft.
They range from small local operations offering private pilot licenses to large academies preparing commercial airline pilots.
The curriculum typically combines ground instruction in aeronautics, navigation, and regulations with actual flight time: She enrolled in flight school after college.
The term gained darker associations after the September 11 attacks, when investigators discovered the hijackers had attended American flight schools.
- simulatorDevice replicating real conditions
- preflight checklistSystematic review before departure
- touch and goDangerously uncertain situation
- student pilotLearning to fly aircraft
- helicoptersRotorcraft that hover
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- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, airplane, airplanes
- aviation hobbiesmodel aircraft, gliding, flying clubs, pilot training, drones
- educationeducation, school, teachers, students, learning
- schoolsprimary school, school, college, academy, high school
- Women AviatorsAmelia Earhart, aviatrix, WASP, WASPs, aviation pioneers
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