Pilot and Pilot Training Guide

With the fact that aviation has become more widespread in the world and in our country, the number of universities opening flight schools and piloting departments that offer pilot training has begun to increase every day. The fact that pilot training can be given at both institutions brings a lot of confusion. In this article, we will explain many points for you, from what piloting means to where pilot training is taken. If you are ready, we begin your piloting journey.

What is Pilotage?

Pilotage is the name given to the ability of pilots to navigate in sharp accuracy and with confidence. In our country, it is often referred to as the name given to the 4-year pilot training in universities.

Piloting is an Art of Navigation

Piloting, often known as dead reckoning, by reference to signs on the earth. Although this old technique has given way to more technological systems, along with developing communication systems, satellites and sensors, it is still valid because it is still the basis of pilot training.

Pilot Training Steps

There are many types of pilot licenses as well as driver's licenses, but pilots who aim to pilot in an airline usually first become pilots by obtaining a Special Pilot License (PPL), and then in aircraft with multiple engines, transporting people or cargo, commercial in flights, they learn to fly by looking at instruments. At the end of all these teachings, they have an Airline Transport Pilot License, which passes as ATPL and can apply to airlines for a job as a pilot.

Popular Pilot License Types

1.PPL -> Particular Pilot License

2.CPL -> Commercial Pilot License

3. ATPL -> Airline Transport Pilot License.

College or flight school?

In some countries, you can identify the piloting departments that were popularly opened in universities in recent years with the bus captaincy departments that were opened in universities again. After graduating from the department of bus captaincy, it is not your diploma that allows you to drive a bus, but your driver's license. The situation in piloting is the same as stop-and-go medicine. Your pilot's license issued through the flight school established at the university makes you an airline pilot, not the university diploma you received after graduating from the piloting department at the end of 4 years. You don't have to wait 2 years to become a bus driver just like you don't have to wait 4 years to become a pilot. The undergraduate flight school part of this training usually lasts 16-18 months.

Cost of Pilot Training

The cost of pilot training varies between 14,000 and 20,000 euros for those who want to become private pilots in our country, while the cost of airline pilot training varies between 50.00 and 90,000 euros.

Piloting Salaries and ROI

It is observed that people who pay wages in average costs to become an Airline pilot earn the ATPL training fee they pay after starting work at airlines within 1.5 years.

Health Report for Pilot Training

If you have decided to become a pilot, one of the first things you need to do is get a health report. Health reports for pilot trainings can be issued by hospitals accredited by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. During your examinations here, tests such as hearing, vision, breath and attention tests are carried out, and you will be examined by doctors from the department of internal medicine, chest, internal medicine, eye, otolaryngology and psychiatry. You are entitled to receive a health report with your results within the limits.

Do you have to be a college graduate to become a pilot?

Is It Necessary to Be a College Graduate to Become an Airline Pilot?

You do not need to be a university graduate to become an airline pilot, but unlike foreign airlines, airlines in Turkey often seek university graduation requirements. It has also been observed that they stretch when the need for pilots increases in this condition.

Which Chapter Should I Read to Become an Airline Pilot?

To be an airline pilot, you don't need to read the piloting section, nor do you need to read the aviation sections. It is your foreign language and piloting ability that is more effective than your department. You can read any chapter.

Pilot Training Duration Specific

Pilot Training Duration 4-6 months for pilot trainings and 16-18 months for Airline Pilot Trainings.

• What is ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot License?
• How to Become an Airline Pilot

• Who can be a pilot? What characteristics should be possessed?