Online Ground School

[Mxranger]

Hello,

New to site and currently taking flight lessons at my local airport but due to work I am away too much to attend their ground school. (purchased my ground school kit thought them)
I do have time sitting on my butt in hotels during travel, so online is really my only option, my flight instructor understands and has no problem with it.

I completed pilottraining.ca demo and found it quite good.

Any feedback (for a newbie) regarding online ground schools would be helpful.

Thanks,

[Mighty Vulture]

Hello,

New to site and currently taking flight lessons at my local airport but due to work I am away too much to attend their ground school. (purchased my ground school kit thought them)
I do have time sitting on my butt in hotels during travel, so online is really my only option, my flight instructor understands and has no problem with it.

I completed pilottraining.ca demo and found it quite good.

Any feedback (for a newbie) regarding online ground schools would be helpful.

Thanks,

I'm assuming you have a copy of From the Ground Up / accompanying workbook? Take those with you. FTGU reads like a fine novel. As far as online stuff... If you search for "Langley online ground school" you'll find a lot of good stuff on their website free of charge.

[utczulugmt]

Hello,

New to site and currently taking flight lessons at my local airport but due to work I am away too much to attend their ground school. (purchased my ground school kit thought them)
I do have time sitting on my butt in hotels during travel, so online is really my only option, my flight instructor understands and has no problem with it.

I completed pilottraining.ca demo and found it quite good.

Any feedback (for a newbie) regarding online ground schools would be helpful.

Thanks,

Here are some other online ground school options:

Accelerated Aviation Training Online Ground School

[JasonE]

Harv's Air (the one you found)- highly recommend it. Do a search here, a few threads about it.

[MattW]

I did the Harv's air (pilottraining.ca), works good. I did very well on my written. For myself if I had to physically go to a classroom for ground school this pilot license would have been a non-starter. I will say that the course, if you actually watch all their lessons, is a lot more than the 50 or whatever required hours of ground instruction. Fine with me, I was after knowledge and I got it.

[Tylerjohnston]

I did the Harvs FAA conversion courses on their website.
I found them excellent, they were put together nicely so that anyone could navigate them. Lots and lots of information!
I would definitely recommend them. If you have any other question feel free to PM me!

Cheers

[Mxranger]

Thanks to everyone for your reply's and great info.

Mighty Vulture, yes I did get a FTGU and my ground school kit seems very complete.

[Rookie50]

Harv's Air (the one you found)- highly recommend it. Do a search here, a few threads about it.

+1.

[thirdtimecharm]

Just used pilottraining.ca for my INRAT... great online program from a great school.

[makmoco]

Hi, can someone explain to me how the online ground school works? It is approved by TC? You will only go to the school to rent a plane and pay for dual hours, or do you still need to get one on one instructor groundschool? Theres is also preparatory ground school, is that the same as ground school and shouldn't that be covered in the online courses?

[photofly]

Didn't you just ask this in another thread?

TC requires 40 hours of classroom-style groundschool. The various online groundschool's are approved by TC in respect of this requirement.

One-on-one with an instructor before each flying lesson is *not* groundschool - it's called PGI - preparatory ground instruction. It's not the same as ground school.

Ground school is about theory of flight, air law, meteorology, cross-country planning, flight operations and other "book work". PGI is "what are we going to do in the air today" to cover the various air exercises - "straight and level", "stalls", "slow flight", "climbing and descending", "flying the circuit", etc etc. You cannot just get in a plane, start the engine, and go. You have to understand what each lesson in the air is going to teach you before you fly.

[makmoco]

Didn't you just ask this in another thread?

TC requires 40 hours of classroom-style groundschool. The various online groundschool's are approved by TC in respect of this requirement.

One-on-one with an instructor before each flying lesson is *not* groundschool - it's called PGI - preparatory ground instruction. It's not the same as ground school.

Ground school is about theory of flight, air law, meteorology, cross-country planning, flight operations and other "book work". PGI is "what are we going to do in the air today" to cover the various air exercises - "straight and level", "stalls", "slow flight", "climbing and descending", "flying the circuit", etc etc. You cannot just get in a plane, start the engine, and go. You have to understand what each lesson in the air is going to teach you before you fly.

Thank you for the explanation photofly, I understand it now.

[boogs82]

Does anybody know if there are currently any coupon codes for pilottraining.ca? I'm not having any luck with Google at this time. I've tried to do the self study CPL with the guides and FTGU and stuff but it's not working out so well for me. So off to Harv's Air online I go again. Used them for my PPL and it was great.

[AirDoan]

I'm literally just about to register and start the pilottraining.ca CPL course as a retake. The long story short; I passed my CPL written but was not able to complete the flight test. It has since expired and I'm going to go through the gambit again as a refresher before taking the exam. If their bundled IFR deal worth it? And any additional materials besides FTGU recomended? I have already talked to them and they have said all necessary materials are provided as downloadable PDF, but thought I'd throw it at anyone who has already gone this route.

[andy.air]

I took their cpl and ifr bundle a few years back. Their cpl course was excellent, but their ifr course put me to sleep, and so I ended up taking the aerocourse instead. Things might have changed now though, and I remember writing to Adam about the excessively long videos.

FTGU is all you need besides your flight computer. If you do IFR, I recommend the instrument procedures manual.

[AirDoan]

8 hours into the CPL and it's going really well. I wish I had done this before, but that's just me. As an interesting aside: the video streams to my chromecast perfectly! So if you have limited space as I do, you can use a tablet/phone to control the video and take the quizzes while spreading out charts, note books etc where you'd normally have to make room for a computer. Just thought I'd share that!