Two pilots are reading this. Only one finishes.
Same dream. Same starting line. The only difference is the order they do things in — and most people get it backwards, then run out of money before they solo. Find out which pilot you are before you spend a dime on flight time.
Tero Nuppola · 18,000+ hours · 25+ aircraft types · airline pilot
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Learns in the airplane
Jumps in, starts the meter, learns weather and airspace and radios at $100 an hour. Around hour 40 the money gets tight, lessons spread out, and one quiet afternoon they stop booking. The 80% who never finish — not because they couldn’t fly.
Learns the ground first
Does the cheap, powerful thing first: understands the theory before paying for the air. When they finally fly, every hour is flying practice. They finish faster, for thousands less — and they actually become a pilot.
Which pilot are you? Take the 60-second quiz.
I got my certificate in 35 hours when the average is 60-plus. Not talent. At sixteen, broke, in rural Finland, I did my ground school first — two nights a week, all winter, in a freezing basement — before I ever touched the controls. That basement is the reason I’m building Pilot Prep Online.
— Tero
Everything the FAA tests. In one place.
Twenty-six modules, three hundred lessons, built from 18,000 hours in the flight deck.
You can’t buy the course yet — the timer decides that. But you can find out which pilot you are right now.
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