What You Can Expect From Gulf Coast Aviation
1/5/2011 — Welcome to Gulf Coast Aviation, located at both Lakefront Airport in New Orleans and Baton Rouge Metropolitan in Baton Rouge. As a Cessna Pilot Center (CPC) we understand pilots, and what it takes to be a pilot like no one else.
In fact, Cessna Pilot Centers are the largest network of professional flight training organizations in the world. Throughout history, more people have learned to fly in a Cessna than any other aircraft.
What’s more, Gulf Coast Aviation offers the entire package. Here’s a sample of what awaits you:
- A safe, friendly, comfortable, dynamic atmosphere in which to learn.
- A knowledgeable flight instructor to mentor you, motivate your learning
and accommodate your requirements.
- Training in dependable Cessna aircraft
- Our web-based multimedia training program that makes becoming a pilot
easier than ever.
Rest assured.
We’ll walk you through the program, step by step.
As for your time investment, it takes an average of four months to a year to earn a pilot's license but, of course, you can take more or less time. We allow you to truly do it on your terms - at your own pace.
Training is worked into your schedule so you can fly early in the morning or late in the evening, at lunch or on the weekends - whatever works best for you. And because the CPC program is so comprehensive and efficient, new pilots earn their licenses an average of 30 percent faster than the national average.
To become a pilot:
- You must be at least 16 years of age for a student certificate and 17 for a private pilot certificate. There is no maximum age limit.
- You must be able to read, speak, and understand English
- You must take a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-required routine medical exam every two years to ensure that you don't have medical conditions that would interfere with your abilitiy to fly.
Contrary to popular belief, pilots can wear glasses or contact lenses to correct vision. Other physical limitations don't automatically keep you from learning to fly, either. There are many physically challenged pilots who regularly enjoy the fredom of the sky.
With our web-based program, you'll learn at your own pace. You learn through the latest technologies, including fully interactive graphics, full-motion, full-screen video and animated graphics. The program even tracks your performance and reports to your instructor. This helps you and your instructor concentrate on areas that present you with the greatest challenge.
The web-based program works hand-in-hand with your actual flight experience - allowing you to preview your next training flight before you even take off.
In the air you'll earn your wings through personal instruction in the cockpit. The FAA requires you to have a minimum of 40 hours of flying time (35 hours under part 141)before applying for a license. Those hours include time behind the controls with and without your flight instructor, and a couple of cross-country and night flights.
During the program, you will take an FAA written exam and, at the end, a flying test - called a practical test (or check ride). In the course of ground school and flight training, you will become well prepared for these milestones with a series of trial runs.
Questions? Sweaty palms? Pre-flight jitters? That's only natural. Just talk to us about it. Cessna Pilot Centers have been through this thousands of times before. Throughout our program, we inspire confidence.
Trust us, this'll be the most fun you've ever had.
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