About: The Private Pilot Certificate program equips you with essential skills and knowledge for piloting aircraft. You'll learn about navigation, flight rules, and aircraft systems, ensuring you're ready for safe and effective flying. This program is designed for those who aspire to take control of their flying experience and enjoy the thrill of aviation.
Career Outcomes: Upon completion, you'll have opportunities as a private pilot, flight instructor, or in related roles within the aviation industry. The certificate prepares you for personal flying or advancing to more complex licensing.
Introduction
The Private Pilot Certification Course will be the student's first introduction to modern aviation.
Applicants will receive a minimum of 35 hours of flight training and 70 hours of ground and/or classroom instruction. Once this course is completed the successful pilot can move directly into the professional pilot program.
San Diego Flight Training International located in beautiful Southern California. SDFTI is a certified & approved 141 schools with flight test examination authority and has been graduating professional pilots since 1989.
SDFTI has helped hundreds of ambitious pilots meet their professional flight training goals with a spotless safety record. We look forward to helping you do the same. Your decision to choose a flight school is an important step and recent surveys demonstrate that a critical difference for experienced students is the style and quality of instruction available. This is the area in which SDFTI scored highest in a recent independent marketing survey. Each course has a syllabus that has been developed to move you through as efficiently as possible with an emphasis on structure, safety, and quality. Our graduates are extremely successful in accomplishing their goals. Nearly 100% pass their written tests on the first try and more than 80% pass their practical flight test with just one try.
Why Choose SDFTI?
DFTI offers world-class training & is proven successful... We've been training pilots here in the San Diego area for well over 20 years.
STRUCTURE We give you the type of structured training that every airline desires when picking the best people for the most coveted positions on an aircraft flight deck. We offer training under both Part 61 and Part 141 with examination authority as prescribed by the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR).
INTERVIEWS PREPARATION Each student is given the job interview and preparation skills to land a job with the widest number of airlines available in the industry. It is more than JUST an interview; it is a career you want … we get you there quickly, effectively, and safely.
TRAINING ENVIRONMENT It is more than days a year you can fly, it is the total number of hours and the comfort in which you can safely experience them. AT SDFTI you benefit from the Southern California Flying Experience which gives you the greatest opportunity to log hours day after day.
DIVERSITY OF TERRAIN In a single flight you can easily go from 70 miles of ocean-front beaches to inland valleys to mile-high mountain peaks to the desert parks of the Anza-Borrego to an agriculturally rich Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea. You have the opportunity to experience more here than anywhere else.
VARIETY OF AIRSPACE AND AIRPORTS There is more variety within 20 miles of SDFTI than any other school on the planet. From multiple Class Bravo commercial and military operations to class 8 controlled civil aviation runways too small uncontrolled strips. Here you have the opportunity to be exposed to virtually anything you will find in your career. We also have one of two "tower en route" corridors available in the United States.
NEWEST AIRCRAFT SDFTI owns, operates, and maintains a 15 aircraft fleet. This includes twin and single engine complex aircraft, and the newest collection of Cessna 172s in the region including the Garmin® G1000® equipped glass flight deck.
