The NPPL (National Private Pilots Licence) Course
We're a CAA-approved training facility with two in-house examiners and we've been turning out confident, safe pilots for over 25 years.
Our large fleet of modern, state of the art microlight aircraft are impeccably maintained, and we have a great team of experienced instructors so cancellations are rare. Even when the weather's bad, our incredibly realistic simulator helps you to refine your skills and make the most of your time in the air.
Of course, training has to be fun, too, and we'll make sure that it is. You'll finish every lesson with the same high that you got from your trial flight! All the thrills and excitement you could wish for are just waiting, and maybe just a short time from now, you will be experiencing that serene pleasure of watching the sun setting in a majestic golden sky behind distant rolling hills on a calm, warm summer evening high above the cares of this world on your very own magic carpet.
It's really very difficult to explain everything in a web page - you really need to talk this over with an expert like the instructor who took you flying in the first place. But you'll find many of the answers you're looking for right here.
TEN-HOUR INTRODUCTORY COURSE
This course includes all your books, and ground subjects lectures, together with club membership plus TEN hours of flight training. You simply book each one-hour lesson as and when your time permits either during the week or at weekends. This is an ideal way to determine if you want to continue without having to commit to a full training programme right at the beginning.
FULL TRAINING TO PPL
Whether you decide to 'go for it' right after your initial trial flight or after your introductory course we can take you right through to obtain your National Private Pilot's Licence. This is a very comprehensive and detailed course, but it's tailored to suit your time requirements. With 45 hours or so of flying to do in total, most of our students book one or two lessons a week and finish the course over a period of about nine months .....this way it doesn’t completely take over the whole of your life! With detailed ground briefings and expert tuition, it usually takes us about 22hours to get the average student to solo stage and from then on it's plain sailing through to obtaining the licence.
And by the way, if you're reading this in the autumn, don't assume that it would be better to leave it until springtime. We operate 363 days of the year (guess which two days we have off!) and we have some wonderful flying during the winter months. You won't be cold because all the aircraft have heaters.
Download a copy of our brochure here and read more about the groundschool and flying syllabus.