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.
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.