Written Test
All Sporty’s courses include interactive written test preparation software on CDROM, so you can study for the written test before you start flight training or as you take lessons. This easy-to-use program allows you to create customized study sessions, take randomly generated practice tests and test your knowledge with our exclusive flash card function. Plus, each DVD includes interactive review quizzes to check your progress as you watch the video.
Oral Exam
You don’t have to fear the oral exam with Sporty’s courses. Our state-of-the-art 3D graphics and animations make complicated subjects like aerodynamics and weather easy to understand, so you’ll have the confidence to answer all of your examiner’s questions. Plus, our integrated Training Course Outline promotes a building-block approach to learning, so you’ll thoroughly understand each concept, instead of just memorizing test questions.
Flight Test
Incredible in-flight footage, filmed in broadcast quality, shows you every maneuver from the pilot’s perspective, from steep turns and stalls to landings and emergencies. In fact, over 75% of our course is shot in and around airplanes. Plus, our Practical Test Standards Study Guide cross-references every required task to the DVD programs, making pre-checkride review easy. We’ll even give you a preview of the checkride on the final DVD program.
Sporty's COMPLETE Recreational Pilot Flight Training Course
Only Sporty's® Complete Private Pilot Flight Training Course is flight school and ground school in one.
Price: $99.00
Sporty's Deluxe Recreational Pilot Kit (Cordura Bag)
Price: $259.00
Sporty's Deluxe Recreational Pilot Kit (Leather Bag)
Price: $339.00

Only Sporty's offers these exclusive features
Our exclusive PTS Study Guide cross-references every required task from the Practical Test Standards to our course. No other course can do this because no other course is this complete. You will be thoroughly prepared for everything on your checkride.
The integrated Training Course Outline offers an FAA-approved training syllabus, including all flight and ground lessons. It includes specific lesson objectives, completion standards, required study materials and room for lesson critique and notes.
Special Air Facts™ segments with Flying magazine editor Richard L. Collins take you beyond the tests to teach you real-world flying tips and techniques. You won't find Collins' expertise in any other flight training course.
Sporty's is committed to having the most up to date courses available. We are continually updating our courses with the latest FAA guidelines, and new segments are frequently added to highlight new technologies. You can buy our course with confidence-it will include the latest information.

Our courses are an exceptional value. Prices start at just $99-you could easily pay much more for a much less complete course. Best of all, with Sporty's there is nothing extra to buy-just add flight instructor.

Volume 1 - Your First Few Hours
Everything you need to know to start on your first few lessons! Covers basic aerodynamics (lift, weight, thrust and drag), aircraft flight controls, aircraft systems (engine, electrical, fuel), preflight inspection, starting the engine, taxiing, takeoff, basic flight maneuvers and traffic patterns.
Volume 2 - Practicing Landings
Make your time spent in the landing pattern more productive. Introduces ground reference maneuvers, engine operation, angle-of-attack, p-factor, slipstream, gyroscopic precession, slow flight, stalls, normal and no-flap landings, crosswind takeoffs, slips, go-arounds and wake turbulence avoidance.
Volume 3 - Your First Solo
Be prepared for an aviation milestone -- your first flight without your instructor! Covers pre-solo maneuvers, steep turns, emergency procedures, basic weather (fog, thunderstorms, forecasts, reports and live weather briefings from FSS), the pitot-static system, stability and control, solo FARs and aeromedical factors.
Volume 4 - Your Recreational Pilot Test
Everything you need to know to complete your training and take your flight test. Covers weather, airspace, maximum performance takeoffs and landings, weight and balance-even a "sneak preview" of computerized testing, your oral exam and your checkride.
Review Quizzes on each DVD
FAA test questions plus answers and explanations reinforce the video lessons and check your progress.
Interactive Test Prep on CD-ROM
This easy-to-use program allows you to create customized study sessions, take randomly generated practice tests and test your knowledge with our exclusive flash card function.
Bonus DVD: Getting Started
Our "Getting Started" DVD package is a mandatory reference! Examines each segment of the flight training process and helps ensure you receive the most for your aviation training dollar. Even more importantly, it takes the anxiety out of learning to fly, allowing you to make intelligent, informed decisions about your aviation education and future. Approx. 160 min.
PTS Study Guide
Sporty's award-winning complete and interactive DVD Flight Training Courses now come with a bonus. A Practical Test Standards (PTS) Study Guide featuring the complete text of the FAA's Practical Test Standards. Each area of operation, task and element is indexed to the DVD course. As a candidate reads through the PTS, he or she can quickly move to the segment of the DVD that teaches that particular task.
Training Course Outline
The Training Course Outline is the direct connection between Sporty's DVDs and the individual training with your flight instructor. It is a step-by-step, lesson-by-lesson guide to completing your flight training in a logical, structured manner.
Sporty's First Flight Log
Sporty's First Flight Log has 24 columns, six of which are blank, and room for 20 flights. Fully complies with the latest FAR Part 61 requirements regarding flight time records, and the user-friendly format makes it easy to record your flight time properly.
Fly with AOPA for 6 months - Free
Simply fill in the card included with your course, drop it in the mail, and AOPA will begin your FREE, NO-STRINGS-ATTACHED six-month subscription to AOPA Flight Training Magazine.
A Guide to Choosing a Flight School
Just as with teaming up with the right flight instructor, picking the right flight school involves weighing several factors, beginning with your own goals and objectives. This guide takes you through all of the steps necessary to make an informed decision when choosing a flight school.
Graduation Certificate
These fine certificates are truly worthy of your flying accomplishment. Printed in Old English type on richly colored cotton fiber forms that are the finest available. Certificates measure 8 1/2”l x 11”w and include an impressed gold seal.


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