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Learning to fly

Do you fancy learning to fly? After all, why not? Many people like you have learned to fly - and many more could have done, if only they'd thought about it.

Although learning to be a pilot is a great challenge, it's not actually all that difficult, and it doesn't require any particular personal or physical skills. In fact, the most difficult thing about learning to fly is deciding which type of flying you're going to do.

If you are a complete beginner the best place to start is to read Seager Publishing's Learn to Fly Guide, which has all the details on the various options. Click here to order your copy

Other info on this site

The Clubs and Schools Guide Find out where your nearest school(s) is/are, and go and talk to them. They'll be more than happy to tell you what's involved

The FLYER Learn to Fly Guide Get this annual magazine and you'll have all your questions answered!

Visit our Student Pilots forum and see what people are saying - and ask your own questions!

Books for student pilots

If you're going to get your licence, you're going to have to pass the ground exams. To help you do that, there are some excellent books which will teach you all you need to know. Click here to buy these books via Amazon.

Things to think about

You want to learn to fly, but you think it might be too difficult? Think again. Many, many people learn to fly each year, in this country and abroad - and most of them thought it would be too difficult, too.

Here are a few quick points to bear in mind

Even if your ultimate ambition is to fly for an airline, your career path will start with flying small aircraft
Flying is fun, so even if you aren't sure that you want to fly for a career, you can still learn to fly and can an pilot aircraft as a 'private' pilot
Flying costs money, but you can tailor your flying opportunities to your budget. Maybe gliding (which has a huge number of challenges and rewards of its own) would suit you best. Or microlighting? Or parascending?
Most people take the sensible decision to pay for their flying lessons on a lesson-by-lesson basis which means that there's not too much investment up-front, and that you can stop (although we don't see why you'd want to) whenever you like. There are even mechanisms to allow you to pick up again later

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