flight training
Learning to fly
Flight training is instruction in how to operate aircraft.
It typically combines ground school—covering aerodynamics, navigation, regulations, and weather—with actual flying time under an instructor's supervision.
Student pilots progress through stages: basic maneuvers, solo flights, cross-country navigation, and instrument flying.
She's halfway through her flight training.
Commercial pilots require hundreds of additional hours.
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- student pilotLearning to fly aircraft
- takeoffDeparture or parody
- touch-and-goUncertain and risky
aircraft · squadron · emergency procedures · aeronautics · airplane · landing · hangar · stall · crosswind · solo · logbook · simulator · instruction · hours · headset · maneuver · air traffic control · airfield
- Naval Aviationnaval aviation, naval aviator, fighter squadrons, air wing, squadron
- Space TrainingSpace Camp, mission planning, mission control, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rocket, rockets, spacecraft
- Air Forcesair force, US Air Force, Luftwaffe, RAF, squadrons
- aviationaircraft, airports, airplane, airplanes, jets
- flight trainingstudent pilot, ground school, checkride, simulator, aviation school