Flight Course Structure

The course is designed to take a complete novice to a level where they are competent to fly an aircraft by themselves with passengers.

The NPPL/PPL course consists of the following:

• Pre-flight operations, including mass and balance determination, aeroplane inspection and servicing;
• Aerodrome and traffic pattern operations, collision avoidance precautions and procedures;
• Control of the aeroplane by external visual reference;
• Flight at critically slow airspeeds, recognition of, and recovery from, incipient and full stalls;
• Flight at critically high airspeeds, recognition of, and recovery from, spiral dives;
• Normal and crosswind take-offs and landings;
• Maximum performance (short field and obstacle clearance) take-offs, short-field landings;
• Flight by reference solely to instruments, including the completion of a level 180 degrees turn;
• Cross-country flying using visual reference, dead reckoning and radio navigation aids;
• Emergency operations, including simulated aeroplane equipment malfunctions; and
• Operations to, from and transiting controlled aerodromes, compliance with air traffic services procedures, communication procedures and phraseology.