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Effective Term:
Fall 2025

Course Number:
AVS 125A
Course Title:
Airplane: Private Pilot Flight A
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
80
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Covers operation of single-engine airplanes as it applies to FAA certified Private Pilot operations. Explores fundamentals of flight, air traffic control, operational procedures, and aeronautical decision making. Provides the required flight instruction, pre/post ground instruction in preparation for First solo flight. Flight training fees cover a specific amount of training.

Addendum to Course Description

A specific number of hours in the first stage of flight instruction, and pre/post flight ground instruction are required to meet the outcomes for this course, which will be provided by PCC's contracted flight training provider under PCC supervision using Hillsboro Aero Academy facilities and equipment. 

This class covers all the hours of training in the Flight Stage 1 of the HAA Part 141 Private Pilot ASEL Training Course Rev 0 – 05/05/2022

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

  1. Complete a stage check to prepare to fly an aircraft solo in both local and cross-country operations.

  2. Perform pre-flight duties and all other procedures necessary for the safe conduct of a flight as a private pilot.

  3. Draw from a broad base of experience gained from training scenarios to exercise safe judgment in all flight-related decisions. 

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students will be evaluated by written (or online) testing, oral testing, and procedure and maneuver demonstration. The completion standards for each lesson in the TCO ensure that successful students progress towards the outcomes.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Course covers the first flight stage in the HAA Part 141 Private Pilot ASEL Training Course Rev 0 – 05/05/2022 (TCO) for Airplane Private Pilot. Specific skills and subject areas Lesson and course content and completion standards are detailed in the TCO, which is issued to each student. The TCO covers, but is not limited to, the following:

Flight Proficiency in these areas of operation:

(i) Preflight preparation;

(ii) Preflight procedures;

(iii) Airport and seaplane base operations;

(iv) Takeoffs, landings, and go-arounds;

(v) Performance maneuvers;

(vi) Ground reference maneuvers;

(vii) Navigation;

(viii) Slow flight and stalls;

(ix) Basic instrument maneuvers;

(x) Emergency operations;

(xi) Night operations, except as provided in §61.110 of this part; and

(xii) Postflight procedures.