Canadian Flight Trainers and Hangaaar are two online ground school course providers centralized in the greater Toronto area. Both have a similar offering of courses but are very distinct. Read on and find out who is better between the two.
Online Ground School
Canadian Flight Trainers and Hangaaar both offer online private pilot ground school & Commercial pilot ground school. Let’s take a deeper look into what your getting for your money!
Private Pilot Ground school
Canadian Flight Trainers
CFT ground school course will prepare you for your student pilot permit, PPAER exam, and set a great foundation for a future of flying. This course will also provide you with access to CFT preparatory ground instruction that will be sure to fully prepare you for each flight lesson, saving you money at a flight school.
This modern ground school course contains over 60 hours of material and exceeds the Transport Canada Requirement including sample quizzes, assessment tasks, exams, video lectures, and content presentations. CFT was able to implement 21st century teaching techniques into each lesson that encourages learning that will last a life time. Behind the scenes, industry leading Instructors with commercial and airline experience are monitoring your progress and are available to answer all of your questions.
CFT offers flexible pricing to fit your lifestyle;
- $199 every 4 months – For the go-getters
- $299 for 9 months – For the average aspiring pilot
- $399 for 12 months – For those balancing a work and family life
Judging from the reviews, CFT have introduced a new standard for online ground school wiping away stone age video lectures and overloading students with content. Students can manage their subscription via the My Account page (for logged in users).
Hangaaar
Hangaaar Operates on an available anytime, anywhere model that allows students to take the course on any device, anywhere they are able to access internet connection – this selling point of theirs is not unique in any way.
Like most online ground schools, Hangaaar offers slide show presentations, videos, and quizzes for the student to learn each required topic. They also make it available for students to send in questions and have them answered by an actual flight instructor.
Along with the ground school, Hangaaar gives you access to a generic question bank designed to prepare you for the Transport Canada written examination.
Hangaaar offers fixed pricing of $249 for 12 months access.
Commercial Pilot Ground School
Canadian Flight Trainers
CFT ground school course will prepare you for your CPAER exam and teach you advanced aviation knowledge relating to commercial operations. This course also provides you with access to CFT preparatory ground instruction that will be sure to fully prepare you for each flight lesson, saving you money at a flight school.
Bonus material included in this course is Threat and error management, CFIT training, and expanded winter operations training. CFT do not recycle PPL videos during their CPL ground school, a common error with other online ground schools.
This modern ground school course contains over 80 hours of material and exceeds the Transport Canada Requirement including instructor monitored short answer questions, real life scenario training, sample quizzes, exams, video lectures, and content presentations.
CFT offers flexible pricing to fit your lifestyle;
- $199 every 4 months – For the go-getters
- $299 for 9 months – For the average aspiring pilot
- $399 for 12 months – For those balancing a work and family life
Hangaaar Review
Hangaaar’s CPL ground school is designed following the Transport Canada written examination guide. The ground school contains over 80 video presentations that are supplemented with quizzes and learning exercises aimed at the goal of preparing you for the CPAER.
Hangaaar has received feedback of offering a straight forward course, however many students feel ill-prepared with some practical knowledge items relating to navigation.
Hangaaar offers fixed pricing of $299 for 12 months access. For an additional $100 fee you are able to add hangaaar’s instrument rating course and multi-engine course. These are two recommended ratings for most commercial pilots.
Hangaaar vs Pilot Training
We’re a little biased here at Canadian Flight Trainers and no matter what, we’re going to tell you that we are better than both. If we were to choose between the two of them though, most of the staff and flight instructors here would probably choose Hangaaar over pilot training ca for an online ground school.
