Private and recreational flying · Private-pilot course
Private Pilot Licence
Victoria Flying Club · Sidney base, Sidney · 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
- Sidney base
- Delivery
- In person
- Schedule
- Flexible
What it teaches and what completion provides
- Teaches
- Ground school (group lecture course) and flight training toward day VFR private privileges on single-engine non-high-performance aircraft.
- Completion provides
- Training toward the licence; flight test is with a Transport Canada Designated Pilot Examiner.
- Still required
- Transport Canada written exam and 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
- Valid Category 1 or Category 3 medical certificate
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
Not published.
School-reported typical completion
Not published. No typical completion time is estimated here.
- Calendar duration
- Ground school takes about 8 weeks; no overall length stated
- Intake / booking
- Not published
Published prices
CAD 219Aircraft rental, per hourprice date 16 October 2026
Hourly charge for the aircraft only. Check whether it is wet (fuel included) or dry (fuel not included).
Solo rate per hour; fuel and oil included, fuel and insurance surcharges extra. Rates page undated. Currency symbol shown as $ without a currency label on the page; school is in Canada, so CAD assumed.
- Aircraft:
- Cessna 172S
- Ground instruction:
- Not stated
- Simulator time:
- Not stated
- Fuel:
- Included
- Rental basis:
- Not stated
- Taxes:
- Not stated
- Landing fees:
- Not stated
- Examinations:
- Not stated
- Medical examination:
- Not stated
- Equipment:
- Not stated
- Accommodation:
- Not stated
Listed exclusions: fuel surcharge; insurance surcharge
Source: flyvfc.com/rates
CAD 100Instructor, per hourprice date 16 October 2026
Hourly charge for the instructor only.
Flight Instructor, per hour. Rates page undated. Currency symbol shown as $ without a currency label on the page; school is in Canada, so CAD assumed.
- Ground instruction:
- Not stated
- Simulator time:
- Not stated
- Fuel:
- Not stated
- Rental basis:
- Not stated
- Taxes:
- Not stated
- Landing fees:
- Not stated
- Examinations:
- Not stated
- Medical examination:
- Not stated
- Equipment:
- Not stated
- Accommodation:
- Not stated
Source: flyvfc.com/rates
Prices are shown in the original currency on the date given and are not converted. Hourly rates and package prices answer different questions and are not compared here. Check the school for current prices.
- Deposit and cancellation
- Not published
Authority records for this school and base
Stated by the schoolBC Private Training Institutions Regulatory Unit (PTIRU)Other frameworkRegistration
Scope: Provincial regulation of the club 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.