FAQ

Online ground school is a self paced program used in conjunction with flight training. Our comprehensive and thorough presentations, videos ,and questions will adequately prepare you for your Transport Canada exams.

Our online ground school gives you access to Flight Instructors and allows you to communicate with other students using our interactive forum. This lets you get the answers to your questions that much faster.

All of our ground school videos are conducted by Daniel, a Class 1 Instructor and Class 1 Aerobatic Instructor. We also have a team of experienced and practical flight instructors, commercial pilots, and airline pilots who have created course content and continue to offer support to students when required.

All of the ground school is conducted in accordance with the Canadian Aviation Regulations and is allowed to be credited towards the appropriate permit or license.

Your flight school actually has no say in the matter of where and how you conduct your own ground school training. ​

They may only run a ground school once every few months, only when enough students register, and they tend to overprice their ground school due to the man power in teaching.

By doing your ground school online, you will be able to progress through your flight training faster and more efficiently. I’m sure the flight school will love that. Remember, all of our content meets the requirements as laid out by the Canadian Aviation Regulations. If you have any issues, please contact us.​ 

Student pilots can record the amount of time they have spent on their ground school in their pilot training record.

In any case, all students will be provided with a record of ground school at the end of their course, upon request. 

Students who fully complete the course will receive a certificate with the actual time spent in their course.

Yes. We are an approved educational institution with Employment and Social Development Canada and will provide a T2202 form for income tax purposes..

These income tax forms will be sent directly to the CRA at the beginning of the new year. In order for us to do this, you must provide your Social Insurance Number to one of our trained Tax Specialists. 

Our online ground school has been created in this century, not in the 1990s. Our content is presented using the best online learning technology available and includes a multitude of features like videos, PDF document libraries, access to instructors, and more. 

Our cost is unmatched in the industry for the quality we deliver to you. Using Canadian Flight Trainers in your training is a no-brainer.

Yes, it is pretty public knowledge that we are not fans of multiple choice questions. The negatives include:

• Encourage superficial learning
• Validity is poor
• Usually only provides evidence if you can pass an exam
• Nearly always inauthentic
• Difficult to get meaningful feedback.

We try and encourage deep learning by incorporating different types of assessment tasks in our course. They include:

• Short Answer Questions
• Portfolio Assignments
• PGI presentations for Instructor Candidates
• Orals and Simulated Interviews
• Some Essays

Potter, M. (2014). Course Design for Constructive Alignment. 

All of our content was designed by active commercial and airline pilots in the industry. We are not just flight school instructors with no experience. Our Commercial Pilot Course will incorporate practical stories from our careers. We have experience at all levels of Commercial Air Services including:

• Flying “up-north”
• Flying in South America and Africa
• Flying for 702, 703, 704 and 705 operators
• Instructing in flight training units
• Teaching aerobatics

You want to know how to deal with crew scheduling at an airline? Or how about an unruly passenger on your flight? Are you afraid to file an SMS? We teach you how to deal with all of these issues.

To write a Transport Canada exam, students may need a letter of recommendation from their flight instructor. 

Upon course completion and upon passing a minimum of 3 exams to a 75%, we may provide students with a letter of recommendation which is valid for 60 days. Only one letter is valid per student. 

Get in contact with our team and we will arrange a course extension for you. There may be a fee for a course extension depending on your subscription and course.

There are some pilot supplies you can purchase from our pilot shop that would help you in your course. Some of the supplies may not be of use to you immediately. 

If in doubt, we offer a comprehensive ground school kit which has all of the books and basic supplies you need to get started in your pilot training journey.