pilot training
Learning to fly
Pilot training is the instruction and practice required to learn to fly aircraft.
It typically progresses from ground school through flight simulators to actual cockpit hours, culminating in licensure.
The term applies across contexts from private aviation to commercial airlines to military combat: She completed her pilot training at the naval air station.
- flight simulationArtificial piloting experience
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- emergency proceduresPredetermined crisis response steps
- medical certificationCredential to practice healthcare
- soloPerformance by one
cross-country flight · night flying · flight hours · cadet · flight · aerodynamics · ICAO standards · air traffic control · aircraft maintenance · navigation systems · control tower · flight instructor · aviation · logbook · preflight check · meteorology · flight simulators · maneuvers
- aviation trainingflight school, ground school, flight instructor, flight academy, flight hours
- Naval Aviationnaval aviation, naval aviator, flight deck, fighter squadrons, air wing
- military aviation trainingflight school, flight academy, aviation school, flight instruction, Air Force Academy
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rocket, rockets, spacecraft
- Air Forcesair force, US Air Force, Luftwaffe, RAF, squadrons
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
pilot traininglicense revocation
Formal withdrawal of permission
grounding · forced retirement · decommissioning · mandatory retirement