PRIMARY GLIDER TRAINING PROGRAM

Each training session is two hours long. Multiple training sessions can be taken in one day.

2-Hour Dual Flight Training Sessions

These sessions begin with a short pre-flight briefing with your instructor to discuss that day’s lesson plan and objectives.

Typically you will make either 2 longer flights, for aero tow and air work maneuvers, or 4 to 6 shorter flights, for landing pattern practice, per session.

After your flights, you and your instructor will have a detailed post-flight debriefing. Your instructor will finish the session by going over what you need to study for the next lesson.

2-Hour Solo Flight Training Sessions

Once you have completed the pre-solo course syllabus and your instructor has endorsed your logbook to make solo flights; you will schedule some Solo Flight Training Sessions along with your Dual Flight Training Sessions.

During your solo flight training sessions you will practice some of the maneuvers your instructor has already taught you so that you will be proficient enough to pass the FAA Private Pilot Glider Practical Flight Test.

Before each solo session you will have a short pre-flight briefing with your instructor. You must get daily approval from your instructor in order to fly solo.

You are not allowed to carry passengers with you on these solo flights. The ability to carry passengers is earned after you pass the FAA Private Pilot Glider Practical Test.

2-Hour Ground Training Sessions

To complete the private pilot glider course you will need to complete the knowledge section of the course syllabus with your instructor. The knowledge section of the course syllabus is mostly independent of the flight training section.

This allows you to work on the knowledge section with your instructor on days when the weather conditions are not flyable. Your goal should be to finish the knowledge section of the syllabus before or at about the same time you finish the flight training

Instruction
Ground Instruction $60/hour
Flight Instruction $60/hour
SGS 2-32 glider $50/hour

Tow Rates
$5 per tow + $2.10 per 100 feet

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