Choosing a Flight School in America

There are about 60 flight schools in our country, and when you want to study commercial pilots, this number can drop to 20 or even 5-6 when you look for a flight school near you. Therefore, choosing a flight school in Turkey is very easy. In the United States, this choice is very difficult. The reason is the number of flight schools. According to Ibisworld data there are 961 flight schools in 2023. For this reason, the most difficult point for those who want to study flight in America is the choice of flight school.

Being a pilot is a childhood dream of many. America, the center of global aviation, serves as a fawn for these people. Some see pilot training in the United States as the first step to settling in the United States. This is why we created this article with both goals in mind.

Flight Training Quality
Miami and Florida are among the top flight education centers for foreign students.

There are two main reasons for this.

1. Being a Tourist Zone
2. Competitive Flight Schools

But these two features can reduce the quality of your flight training while also causing you to pay more money . Schools that engage in price competition can increase your invisible activities. The abundance of airline flights in tourist areas causes practical training grounds to be remote. Therefore, it takes a long time to go to the airfield where you will receive practical training, you will not be able to complete your training at any time, and you will pay more by buying more extra flight training. (You can check out Flight Training in Florida and Miami.)

Cultural Adaptation

One of the most difficult points when you decide to live in a different country arises as cultural adaptation. This becomes even more difficult when you start studying in the new country where you decide to live at the same time. Therefore, choosing the place in America that you want to live in a more relevant way to your culture can distract you from failure and help you achieve success. It will be more beneficial for you to choose centers like Boston, which is mainly due to the fact that Turkey has a European culture.

Language School Support

If you have not previously lived in the United States or any other country, you may want to enroll in a language school even if you know English. Therefore, when choosing a flight school, choose flight schools that have agreements with language schools and allow you to attend a language school while you are taking flight training.

F1 Visa and Work Opportunity
If you have decided to study piloting in the United States and do not have a valid American visa, the first thing you need to do is apply for a visa. The fact that there are many types of visas in the United States requires you to apply carefully. For this reason, we recommend that you ask if you can get an F1 visa with the invitation sent by the schools where you will be studying to fly. When you travel to the United States with an F1 visa, you will also have a 20-hour work permit per week. This can both benefit you reduce your costs and increase your cultural adaptation.

College Credit
In the United States, training from some flight schools may be credited to universities with which those flight schools are contracted. These courses, which can usually be counted as 30-40 credits, correspond to 1.5 years of your university education, allowing you to graduate from university in 2.5 years at the same time.

In a country with more than 900 flight schools, going to an ordinary flight school does not make you different, but rather weakens you. Therefore, when choosing a flight school in the United States, it is important for your pilot career to choose flight schools with a lot of local and global connections without falling into the allure of flight schools in tourist areas. Some schools in the United States allow you to be hired on private jets after your flight training or work as a flight teacher on their own, thanks to their connections. By choosing these types of flight schools, you can earn 1500 hours of flight experience and quickly reach your goal of airline piloting.