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Private Pilots License

This is where you are introduced to the world of aviation and learn the basics of flight. You are initiated into the full range of aircraft maneuvers and navigation during air training exercises, as well as learning flight theory, weather and other subjects in ground school. The Canadian Private Pilot Licence will allow you to carry passengers in light single-engine airplanes during daylight hours in good (VFR) weather conditions.

Admission Requirements

Transport Canada requires the candidate:

• to be a minimum of 17 years of age (16 years for Student Permit)
• to hold a Category 3 medical (If continuing to a Commercial Licence, a Category 1 medical should be obtained)
• to be a Canadian citizen, landed immigrant, or person lawfully admitted to Canada for flight training
• to have acquired a minimum of 40 hours of ground training, and 45 hours of flight training broken down as follows:
1. minimum 17 hours dual instruction
2. minimum 12 hours solo practice
3. combination of dual and solo to attain flight test standards

Ground Training

Centennial has developed a continuous ground school system to allow students to start at any time for the Private License. The classes run every Tuesday and Thursday from 19:00 to 21:30. Though Transport Canada requires 40 hours, the ground school consists of 55 hours of formal instruction in the following subjects:

• Aerodynamics and Theory of Flight
• Flight Operations
• Canadian Aviation Regulations
• Meteorology
• Navigation
• Radio and Electronic Theory
• Airframes, Engines and Systems
• Flight Instruments
• Licensing Requirements
• Human Factors and Pilot Decision Making

Flight Training

Flight training consists of 5 phases:

1. Essential training to the first solo level. This is all dual (flying with your instructor) and is followed by three hours of solo practice.
2. Advanced flight training involves advanced techniques for forced approaches and specialty take-offs and landings (e.g. operating from soft or short fields).
3. Navigation involving dual and solo cross-country flights with no less than 3 hours dual and 5 hours solo.
4. An introduction to instrument flying.
5. Preparation for the flight test: dual and solo as required by the student to reach a level of proficiency necessary to pass the flight test.

NIGHT RATING

Make the most of that hard-earned license…do it in the dark!!! Now is the time to free yourself of those restricting daylight hours.

The night rating provides a new dimension to your flying by introducing some of the basic techniques involved in instrument flying.

This advancement of your flying skills will enable you to extend your flights and fly in a beautiful and relaxing atmosphere.

Prerequisite

• Canadian Private Pilots License

Course Outline

Minimum 20 hours flight time:

• 10 hours of night flight time including a minimum of:
1. 5 hours dual flight time, including 2 hours cross-country
2. 5 hours solo flight time including 10 take-offs, circuits and landings and;
• 10 hours of dual instrument time which may include the 5 hours instrument obtained during the Private Pilot Course.

IFR

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) is flying the aircraft by referring primarily to instruments in the aircraft cockpit without visual reference to the ground (this means you are flying in, or above the clouds where you cannot see the ground). The aircraft must contain appropriate IFR equipment, and the pilot must be specially trained and licensed. And Centennial provides some of the best IFR training in Canada.

Flying in IFR conditions is the most precise and challenging flying a professional pilot will encounter. The course itself combines the actual flying of an aircraft with the rules, procedures and instrument navigation skills, enabling you to take off and land in conditions where you may only be able to see a mere half-mile in front of the aircraft.

Centennial’s state-of-the-art, full-motion, Redbird FMX simulator (pictured) gives the student an extremely realistic experience before they operate an aircraft under similar conditions. In the simulator, emergencies are practiced that cannot be safely conducted in the aircraft during actual IFR flight. Our simulator and Seneca have both been configured – including a Garmin 530 and Garmin 430 GPS so that the instrument panels are nearly identical. This technique is used by Airlines to make the transition from the simulator to aircraft as smooth as possible.

Whenever possible flight training in C-GNJX, our Seneca, is conducted in actual IMC (instrument meteorological conditions). This allows us to train you in conditions that will better prepare you for the situations you will encounter when you gain a position in the industry. The aircraft is also equipped with a Slaved Compass System incorporating an HSI and RMI. A fully IFR Certified GPS combination of a Garmin 530 and a Garmin 430 has been installed so that you may train in GPS navigation techniques.

Prerequisites

• Canadian Private Pilot License
• 50 hours cross-country pilot-in-command
• Multi-engine rating (for multi-engine IFR)

Course Outline

• 20 hours dual Redbird FMX simulator
• 20 hours dual aircraft
• Over 50 hours ground school

References

• Canada Air Pilot 3
• Low Enroute Charts
• Terminal Chart
• A.I.M.
• Canada Flight Supplement
• Instrument Procedures Manual

INSTRUMENT PROFICIENCY CHECK

An Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC) meets the recency requirements for the holder of an instrument rating. A pilot must have completed an IPC (or equivalent) in the previous 2 years prior to exercising the privileges of an instrument rating.

Preparatory training prior to an IPC must be conducted by a flight instructor qualified in accordance to Standard 425.21(9) of the CAR’s that is not the examiner that will conduct the IPC. The IPC must be conducted by a Transport Canada authorized examiner.

Centennial’s Redbird FMX simulator is Transport Canada certified for IPC renewals. The multi engine configuration is based on a Seneca 1 and well equipped with a Garmin 530/430 GPS, HSI and an autopilot for coupled approaches. The course includes 3 simulator sessions including a mock IPC and pre/post ground instruction.

This course will review IFR procedures including SID’s, STAR’s, RNAV and ILS approaches, and emergency procedures including engine failures with single engine approaches.

This course assumes a recently lapsed instrument rating. Additional simulator and/or ground time may be required to reach proficiency depending on how long a pilot has been expired. Self-study and review will be required prior to each session.

Prerequisite:

1. Candidate must hold an Instrument Rating

Textbooks:

1. CAP GEN
2. Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)
3. Instrument Procedures Manual (IPM)
4. Aircraft POH

Additional:

1. Current IFR charts and CFS are required. An ipad or tablet with an electronic flight planning app (Foreflight, Garmin pilot, Flight Plan) is highly recommended.

NOTE: Additional simulator, Pre & post flight briefing and ground time may be required to achieve proficiency.