Private and recreational flying · Private-pilot course
Private Pilot Licence
Southern Interior Flight Centre (SIFC) · Kelowna base, Kelowna · Canada
At a glance
- Training category
- Private and recreational flying
- Aircraft category
- Fixed-wing (aeroplane)
- Prepares for
- Private Pilot Licence - Aeroplane
- Jurisdiction
- Canada
- Authority
- Transport Canada
- Training framework
- Not stated
- Training base
- Kelowna base
- Delivery
- In person
- Schedule
- Flexible
What it teaches and what completion provides
- Teaches
- Online ground school and flight training toward day VFR private privileges, valid for flight in Canada and the United States.
- Completion provides
- Training toward the licence; written exam, language proficiency test and flight test are required.
- Still required
- Written exam (60% pass mark), Aviation Language Proficiency Test, flight test.
- Approval scope
- The source does not say how this course relates to the school's approval.
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
- Not published
- Prior qualifications
- Not published
- Required experience
- Not published
- Language requirements
- Not published
- Medical
- Category 3 or 1
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
As stated by the authority; not a guarantee of total cost or completion time.
Advertised package hours
- Dual: 17 h
- Solo: 12 h
- Dual includes 3 hours cross-country and 5 hours instrument; solo includes 5 hours cross-country.
School-reported typical completion
Not published. No typical completion time is estimated here.
- Calendar duration
- Start any time; ground school is online; no overall length stated
- Intake / booking
- Not published
Published prices
No price is published on the sources researched for this program. Use Request Information to ask the school.
- Deposit and cancellation
- Not published
Authority records for this school and base
Stated by the schoolBC Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB)Other frameworkRegistration
Scope: Provincial registration as a private training institution (as stated); not a Transport Canada approval statement.
A record for the school does not necessarily cover this specific course; the scope is shown where the source states it.