The desire to fly often precedes the first concrete step by several years. When the moment comes, the order of the steps matters: taken properly, the five that follow let you commit with full knowledge — and avoid the two classic mistakes, enrolling without having flown and investing without having verified your medical fitness.
Photo: Robert Colin.
1. Fly first
An introductory flight answers the question nothing else can settle: do you actually enjoy flying? You take the captain’s seat and fly from take-off, accompanied by an instructor, with a briefing before the flight and a debriefing after. It costs €290 and, if you enrol, it counts towards your training: a genuine first hour of instruction, not a sightseeing trip.
2. Verify your medical fitness
The medical certificate is the one true prerequisite of training. For the private pilot licence, a class 2 certificate is sufficient, issued by an approved aeromedical examiner. If your goal is professional, we recommend taking the class 1 examination straight away — the initial examination is done exclusively at an approved aeromedical centre — before any investment in training: it is the step that secures all the others.
3. Choose your path
A private licence to fly as an informed amateur, or the complete professional course? The good news is that this choice need not be final on day one: on a modular path, the private pilot licence is the first module of the professional course. Starting with the PPL means progressing under both hypotheses at once — nothing is lost, whichever way you go.
4. Build your financing plan
Our prices are published in full, third-party fees included: you can cost your project before the first meeting. Payment follows progress — you fund a personal account, viewable online, from which courses and flights are drawn as you go — which is how the majority of our students train alongside a professional activity, spreading the effort over two to three years. The article “How much does pilot training cost?” details the amounts and what they cover.
5. Visit the school
A flight school is also chosen on site: the classrooms, the aircraft, the simulators, and above all the people who will train you. Our Open Day on 26 September 2026 — the school turns fifty — is the ideal occasion, with free entry from 10 am to 5 pm. Outside that date, the team welcomes visitors by appointment all year round: contact us and come ask your questions where pilots have been trained since 1976.