We Don’t Just Train Pilots, We Create Aviators
Aviation is not just about flying, it's is about leadership, safety, and embracing a sense of adventure. Aviation is hours of study, maintaining your health at a high level, and joining a community of professionals that author the pages of history. It isn’t easy, and the price can be high, but if you want a rewarding career that you will never regret then it's well worth the journey. Be part of the next generation of aviation professionals and begin your career as a pilot with USATS.
Quality-Based Training
How do you judge aviation training quality? Expensive aircraft and nice training facilities? Or, do you look at success, safety, and experience?
USATS has over 30 years of history in training thousands of pilots (and 2 astronauts, Bolden and Knudsen!) from over 120 different countries. Our graduates fly in every sector of the aviation industry throughout the world, so no matter which of the hundreds of career paths you choose you'll find that at least one of our graduates has blazed a path for you.
World-Class Training Programs
Challenge our training professionals to create a training path that meets your personal career goals!
Our training professionals will evaluate your needs from every possible angle, including considerations like aircraft type, special flight requirements, host country regulatory requirements, instrument training, and certifications all the way to an instructor rating. (We often hire our graduates as instructors to help build quality hours and experience.)
Certified Flight Instructor (CFI)
Overview
After graduation from commercial training, becoming a flight instructor is the usual path to capture your initial job. It will give you the opportunity to build your flight hours and meet the minimum requirements for your first commercial position (Tours, Offshore single-engine captain or twin-engine co-pilot, Corporate 135 operators, etc.)
Some pilots see it just as an hour building exercise but we see it as the most challenging, rewarding and interesting job you will probably experience. If you want to really know a subject or master a skill, either write a book about it or teach it. We are obviously in the business of the latter.
Our flight instructor course is a structured course focusing on the soft skills such as Crew Resource Management (CRM), Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) and Threat and Error Management (TEM) specifically tailored to the flight instructor.
After demonstrating you have the required flight abilities, you will learn about teaching techniques to safely and efficiently transfer your technical and flight skills, along with common student mistakes and how to correct/avoid them.
Take a look at the discussion with our Chief Flight Instructor to see all the benefits. It is an intensive but fun and very rewarding course
Course Features
Pre-requisites:
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Hold a commercial or ATP rotorcraft helicopter certificate
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Be able to read, speak, write and understand English
Training:
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Appropriate ground knowledge on the Fundamental of Instruction, Private and Commercial curriculum.
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Ground School: 40 hours
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Dual: As required but expect 20 hours
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Solo: None
Course length:
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2 months
Aircraft:
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S300CBi
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R22
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R44
Flight Instructor Add-on
If you already hold a flight instructor rating:
Training:
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Additional helicopter specific knowledge
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Dual: As required but expect 15 hours
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Solo: None
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The training plan is designed based on your experience and currency as a Flight Instructor
Course length:
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1 month