Getting Started
Getting Started is Easy!
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To begin your aviation adventures, simply call or stop by CSA toschedule your first flight with a CSA flight instructor.
At CSA, there is no up front contract or commitment. You pay as you go after each flight. Remember, if you need help financing your training, CSA can assist you.
Once you have been assigned your instructor, the two of you will schedule your lessons together, around your schedule. Generally each flight lesson takes about 2 hours, with about an hour or a bit more in the airplane and the balance of time for pre and post flight time with your instructor. There is some ground instruction time - not everything can be taught in the aircraft. Ground instruction gives you the opportunity to ask questions, review that days’ flight lesson, and plan your next flight.
CSA conducts flight training 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Your flight training schedule can be tailored to works best for you. On your own schedule and at your pace.
CSA has two options for ground training, in class and home study, which are both FAA Part 141 certified. CSA offers formal ground school classes. We highly recommend enrolling in the formal ground schools. Students are able to interact with the instructor, ask questions and learn from one another. All of our ground schools are taught by our premier instructors and utilize the latest multimedia teaching aids. Ground schools are taught at a variety of days and times, from two nights a week to all day Saturday classes. Give us a call to enroll in the next class.
If your schedule will not accommodate one of our formal ground schools, we also offer home based training. Our home based ground school is an interactive computer course that will allow you to study at your own pace and on your own time frame.
During your flight training, you will also have “Stage Checks” with a CSA Check-Airman. He or she will give you an invaluable objective review on how you are progressing. All this is designed to provide the best training available. By the time you are ready, you will be comfortable and confident in the cockpit.
At the end of your training there are two tests you will take, one written, and one flying the airplane.
You can take the written test whenever you have completed your studies. The test for the Private consists of 60 random multiple choice questions out of a total question bank of 200. Don’t worry, you will be well prepared. The CSA flight kits will cover ALL of the written test questions—complete with practice tests. And remember, CSA is an FAA Testing Center so you don't have to travel to take your test.
Once you have completed your flight training, you will take an FAA test called the “Practical Test.” The Practical Test includes both an oral and a flight test. CSA will make sure you are well prepared for your Practical test. CSA maintains a 92% pass rate for all of our students, well above the national average.
Two things that YOU can do to Lower your training time and cost:
First: Be prepared. Come to your lessons prepared and full of questions for your instructor. Actively participate in your training. Keep up with the lessons in your ground school. Make the effort to get the most out of your training. Ask questions about everything.
Second: Fly regularly. Two to four lessons a week is great. It doesn’t matter to us, but the more regularly you fly, the quicker you build on what you have learned, and your retention of the material is greater , thus you can save time and money in the process !
It’s a lot easier than you thought…Call us today!
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