How often to fly, how many lessons a licence really takes, what a long gap costs you and how to measure your own training. Written around the numbers that decide how your training goes.
Why two or three lessons a week is the usual advice, and what to do when you can't.
Read → PPLFrom the 45-hour minimum to a realistic number of lessons, and how long that takes.
Read → TrackingThe five things worth tracking as a student pilot, and why your logbook alone won't tell you.
Read → FrequencyHow the spacing of your lessons affects what you remember, what you pay and when you finish.
Read → GapsA guide to gaps: from a few days, which is ideal, to a month or more, which costs you lessons.
Read → FrequencyFlights per week, average and median gap, worked through with an example.
Read → PaceWhat one, two, three or more lessons a week means for your training and your finish date.
Read → DisruptionWeather, aircraft, instructors and standby: where the waiting comes from, and how to measure yours.
Read → DisruptionThe knock-on effects of a delay, from repeated lessons to expiring exams, and how to recover.
Read →Every minimum, with its regulation reference, for the UK CAA, EASA and FAA.
