student pilot
Flying under supervision
A student pilot is someone learning to fly an aircraft who has not yet earned a pilot's license.
Student pilots train under the supervision of a certified flight instructor, progressing through ground school and flight hours before taking their checkride.
She's been a student pilot for six months and just completed her first solo.
- traineeOne being instructed
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- soloPerformance by one
- logbookOfficial record of events
- flight hoursTime spent piloting aircraft
instructor · Cessna · preflight · takeoff · landing · crosswind · stall · headset · runway · checkride · ground school · airfield · control tower · throttle · yoke · altitude · traffic pattern · nervous
- aviatorsaviator, naval aviator, copilot, ace, flying ace
- flight trainingflight training, flight school, flight instructor, solo flight, ground school
- flight instructorsolo flight, checkride, ground school, logbook, flight hours
- pilot credentialsATP, PPL, commercial license, medical certificate, single engine
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
experience and mastery
student pilotairline captain
Chief pilot of aircraft
senior captain · test pilot · ace · bush pilot · old hand
student, pilot, students, study, studied, studying, studious, studiously, studio