Flight Instruction
A complete aircraft checkout is included with the purchase of a Phoenix. This includes flight instruction and ground training. The ground training gives the owner a complete understanding of the tasks to do regular preventative maintenance, and all of the care and feeding of his new Phoenix.
Initial flight instruction, aircraft checkouts, power pilot transition to gliders, and self launch endorsements for glider pilots are available in the Phoenix. Since the Phoenix is a glider, all airtime and instruction logged is glider time. Some pilots log airplane and glider time in seperate logbooks, others only keep one logbook. All glider time can be applied to an airplane rating. If you want to transition from gliders to airplanes, the FAA requires a minimum of 9 hours in an airplane in addition to your glider time.
Flight instrution: $140/hour
Phoenix rental: $100/hour
Ground instruction: $40/hour
The FAA requirements for an initial glider rating are 10 hours total time and 10 solo flights. Also required are a written test and the flight exam with an FAA Examiner. Most people need about twice this amount of time to be fully prepared for the flight test. For each hour of flight training, about a half hour is required for preflight and postflight briefing. A student pilot can solo at age 14, and must be 16 to get the private glider rating. The average cost of a glider rating would be about $5000.
The FAA requirements for a glider add-on rating to a private or sport airplane rating is 3 hours logged time in a glider and 10 solo flights. Again, it would be a good idea to double these requirements to be ready for the flight exam. No written test is required for the private airplane rated pilot. The average cost is about $2000.
A self launch endorsement is required to operate any glider which can take off under it's own power. This includes touring motorgliders like the Phoenix, or the retractable engine sailplanes which only use the engine to get aloft, and then soar as a pure glider. For pilots who are current in both an airplane and a glider the endorsement can be as quick as 2 hours of flight and 1 hour of ground instruction. For the glider only rated pilot, the self launch endorsement may take around 15 hours of flight instruction.
We can transition you to aerotow at the Seminole Lake Gliderport, near Clermont, FL. SLG is only 35 minutes away by air.
To download a copy of the Glider Handbook go to:
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/
This book will give you all of the knowledge required for the glider rating.
Initial flight instruction, aircraft checkouts, power pilot transition to gliders, and self launch endorsements for glider pilots are available in the Phoenix. Since the Phoenix is a glider, all airtime and instruction logged is glider time. Some pilots log airplane and glider time in seperate logbooks, others only keep one logbook. All glider time can be applied to an airplane rating. If you want to transition from gliders to airplanes, the FAA requires a minimum of 9 hours in an airplane in addition to your glider time.
Flight instrution: $140/hour
Phoenix rental: $100/hour
Ground instruction: $40/hour
The FAA requirements for an initial glider rating are 10 hours total time and 10 solo flights. Also required are a written test and the flight exam with an FAA Examiner. Most people need about twice this amount of time to be fully prepared for the flight test. For each hour of flight training, about a half hour is required for preflight and postflight briefing. A student pilot can solo at age 14, and must be 16 to get the private glider rating. The average cost of a glider rating would be about $5000.
The FAA requirements for a glider add-on rating to a private or sport airplane rating is 3 hours logged time in a glider and 10 solo flights. Again, it would be a good idea to double these requirements to be ready for the flight exam. No written test is required for the private airplane rated pilot. The average cost is about $2000.
A self launch endorsement is required to operate any glider which can take off under it's own power. This includes touring motorgliders like the Phoenix, or the retractable engine sailplanes which only use the engine to get aloft, and then soar as a pure glider. For pilots who are current in both an airplane and a glider the endorsement can be as quick as 2 hours of flight and 1 hour of ground instruction. For the glider only rated pilot, the self launch endorsement may take around 15 hours of flight instruction.
We can transition you to aerotow at the Seminole Lake Gliderport, near Clermont, FL. SLG is only 35 minutes away by air.
To download a copy of the Glider Handbook go to:
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/
This book will give you all of the knowledge required for the glider rating.
