Pilot For The Day

With this flying discovery package, you will get an introductory lesson to airplane flying, flight techniques, radiotelephony, navigation, etc.

This program consist in a flight lesson, it is divided in a theoretical part where you will learn in an easy and funny way everything necessary to become a pilot for a day.

The flight will be performed in a Cessna model 172, this aircraft is very easy to fly. Our pilots are licensed instructors by the Dirección General de Aviación Civil with broad experience in flight instruction as well as other aviation related activities. This activity is divided in a ground lesson during approximately 45 minutes where
the following subjects are considered:

• Doing a flightplan
• Aircraft exterior inspection
• Why an airplane flies
• Stalls. What is a stall? How to avoid stalls
• Instruments (What are they? What are they used for? When we use instruments?)
• Cockpit and flight controls.
• Flying techniques (Engine start, Taxiing, Takeoff, Climb, Turns, Descends, The compass, Navigation, Approaching the runway, Landing)

After this short ground lesson, which is done during our way to the airplane and flight preparations, we will continue with a 45 minutes flight where you will act as a pilot during the whole flight, supervised by our instructor. The flight will be done in the following manner:

• Start up of the airplane
• Request tower authorization, normally done by the instructor.
• After being authorized, taxiing to the active runway.
• Departing and climb to the assigned altitude.
• Climb and descent, turns 15º, 30º and 45º.
• Once the client is comfortable with the airplane, we will perform a stall.
• Once every thing is done we will request authorizations to land at the airport.
• You prepare the airplane for landing, as instructed in the ground lesson and land the airplane.

This activity is done at the airport of Granada. Eat somenthing before flying and feel free to bring your camera.

NOTE : Option to a full day initiation course : 3 hours of theory and 3 hours of practice. Select upgrade option here under.