There’s no greater joy than teaching, earn your Flight Instructor’s rating at the Karachi Aero Club and help others realize their dream of becoming pilots. As a Flight Instructor you will be able to provide ground and flight instruction to students and build significant amounts of flight time. Flight Instruction is considered to be one of the most important steps towards building the experience required to join an airline.

Successful completion of our Flight Instructor’s course ensures that you are fully prepared to safely instruct other students in the required aeronautical knowledge and experience to earn their desired CAA Licenses and Ratings.

Because of the globally increased demand for Pilots the landscape is becoming increasingly competitive; Flight Instructional experience is considered “Quality” flight experience and sets you apart from the crowd.

It is not without coincidence that many students who earned their Flight Instructor’s rating at the Karachi Aero Club have gone on to join some of the nation’s best airlines as well as foreign carriers or flight schools.

FLYING TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

• The Flight Instructor’s flying training course is intended to train the applicant to give instruction on single-engine aircraft.
• The flight instruction shall comprise at least 30 hours of flight training of which 25 hours shall be dual flight instruction. The remaining five hours may be mutual flying (that is, two applicants flying together to practice flight demonstrations). Of the 25 hours, five hours may be conducted in a flight simulator or FNPT (Flight Navigation Procedure Trainer) approved for the purpose by the Authority. The skill test is additional to the course training time.
• The Flight Instructor shall have acquired the ability to instruct the students on the use of NDB, VOR and ILS (CAT 1).
• An applicant for a Flight Instructor’s Rating shall demonstrate to an examiner notified by the Authority for this purpose the ability to instruct a student pilot to the level required for the issue of a CPL/IR, including pre-flight, post-flight and theoretical knowledge instruction.

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Course Selection Criteria

• Review of all examination grades by Honorary Secretary and Chief Flying Instructor.
• Written entry test.
• Interview with Honorary Secretary and Chief Flying Instructor.

THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

The applicant shall have met the knowledge requirements for the issue of a Commercial Pilot’s License; and in addition the applicant shall have demonstrated a level of knowledge appropriate to privileges granted to the holder of a Flight Instructor's Rating in the following areas:

• Techniques of applied instruction;
• Assessment of student performance in those subjects in which ground instruction is given;
• The learning process;
• Elements of effective teaching;
• Students evaluation and testing, training philosophies;
• Training program development;
• Lesson planning;
• Classroom instructional techniques;
• Use of training aids;
• Analysis and correction of student error;
• Human performance and limitations relevant to flight instructions and
• Hazards involved in simulating system failures and malfunctions in the aircraft

In order to begin training for your Commercial Pilot’s License at the Karachi Aero Club, you must:

• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Have an educational qualification of at least Intermediate or the equalivalent.
• Be able to speak, read, write and comprehend the English language.
• Hold a valid CAA Commercial Pilot’s License or ATPL.
• Hold a valid Class 1 medical certificate from the CAA.

The Karachi Aero Club is the subcontinent’s oldest flying institution and provides only the most professional flight training available. While attending our club you will undergo world-class instruction so you get the most up-to-date aviation education available. Your experience at the Karachi Aero Club will include both in-flight training and ground school where you will learn about the fundamentals of flight, emergency operations, CAA regulations, aviation weather and more flying essentials.