Private and recreational flying · Private-pilot course
Private Pilot's Licence (PPL) - Ground & Flight Training
Leinster Aero Club · Weston Airport, Lucan · Ireland
At a glance
- Training category
- Private and recreational flying
- Aircraft category
- Fixed-wing (aeroplane)
- Prepares for
- EASA Private Pilot Licence (PPL(A))
- Jurisdiction
- Ireland
- Authority
- IAA
- Training framework
- Declared training organisation (DTO), national authority
- Training base
- Weston Airport
- Delivery
- In person
- Schedule
- Schedule not stated
What it teaches and what completion provides
- Teaches
- Ground school (about 120 hours of study across nine subjects) and flight training including solo and cross-country flights, ending with a flight test.
- Completion provides
- Training toward PPL; licence issued by the IAA.
- Still required
- Nine online multiple-choice theory exams and a flight test.
- Approval scope
- Club states it is a DTO; DTOs file a declaration with the IAA rather than holding an ATO approval. Not checked against an IAA DTO list.
A course completion certificate is not necessarily a pilot licence or rating. The licensing authority issues licences and ratings after its own requirements are met.
Entry requirements
- Minimum age
- 17 (as published)
- Prerequisites
- Limited availability for ab-initio student pilots; club membership application required
- Prior qualifications
- Not published
- Required experience
- Not published
- Language requirements
- Not published
- Medical
- Medical examination by an IAA-approved Medical Examiner
Only an official aeromedical assessment can establish medical fitness. This site does not decide eligibility.
Duration and hours
These figures answer different questions and must not be read as one another. Weather, aircraft availability, student progress, examinations and scheduling all affect real completion time.
Regulatory minimum
45 h flight time
45 hours total including 10 hours supervised solo, 5 hours solo cross-country; 120 hours is the club's estimate of ground study
Advertised package hours
Not published.
School-reported typical completion
Not published. No typical completion time is estimated here.
- Calendar duration
- Not published
- Intake / booking
- Not published
Published prices
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- Deposit and cancellation
- Not published
Authority records for this school and base
Stated by the schoolIAADeclared training organisation (DTO), national authorityDeclaration
Scope: PPL ground and flight training, SEP (land) class rating, night rating (as stated by the club)
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