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Online Ground School will get you ready for your FAA Exam and Checkride


FlightInsight was created by a University Aerospace Professor who wanted pilots everywhere to have access to the same comprehensive, rigorous training curriculum that students have. Read the Course Syllabus here!

Private Pilot Online Ground School includes over twenty hours of videos, lectures, and tutorials designed to give you the knowledge you need to excel in the cockpit.

You'll also gain access to the Test Prep Course, to drill specifically on topics and questions you'll see on the FAA Knowledge Test. Practice from a test bank of hundreds of questions modeled on the real test.

Give us a try! Take the first two classes of the Ground School for Free!



30+ Hours of Content

This course is the full Ground School curriculum taught in universities and flight schools across the world. With over 800 illustrations, tutorials, and videos accompanying the lectures, you'll gain insights into flying you won't see anywhere else.

Free Test Prep Course

Also included is Private Pilot Test Prep, designed to get you ready for the FAA Knowledge Test. Lectures and practice focus on just what you need to know to nail test questions. It's included as a bonus with this course, or save money and buy it separately!

Free Instructor Endorsement

Upon completing the course you'll receive an endorsement signed by a CFI which you'll need in order to take your Knowledge Test.

Take this course anywhere

The entire course, including texts and supplemental materials, is provided virtually. You can take this course from any device, picking up where you left of before.

Take Simulated Practice Tests

With a test bank of hundreds of practice questions modeled on past FAA exams and updated constantly, you can drill on specific concepts and take timed, graded practice tests with detailed feedback for each question.

Train with the Best

Hundreds of pilots have used these lessons to become better pilots and earn their FAA certification. Join them!

A Comprehensive Ground School

Your Instructor


Dan George is a Certified Flight Instructor based in Maryland. He has accumulated over 3,000 flight hours, mostly through instructing students. He has guided dozens of pilots through the challenging process of attaining their Private or advanced ratings. Dan serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, teaching Aviation in the Aerospace Engineering Department. He is an instrument rated Commercial Pilot with Single and Multiengine Land ratings, and is an FAA Gold Seal Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor.

Email Dan at [email protected]

What's Inside


  Class 1 - Aerodynamics
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  Class 2 - Airplane and Systems
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  Class 3 - The Flight Environment
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  Class 4 - Air Traffic Control
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  Class 5 - Performance
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  Class 6 - Regulations
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  Class 7 - Weather Part 1
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  Class 8 - Weather Part 2
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  Class 9 - Sources of Flight Information
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  Class 10 - Navigation
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  Class 11 - Navigation Planning
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  Class 12 - Human Factors
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  Class 13 - Plan a Cross Country Flight
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  Class 14 - FAA Knowledge Exam Preparation
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  Course Files
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What is "Ground" School?

Becoming a pilot involves both flight training in the cockpit and ground training outside the airplane. Flight training gives you the practical experience you need to become a pilot, while ground training gives you the knowledge you need to apply those skills. In our experience, the more time you spend in ground training the easier you'll find flight training and the less time you'll need to repeat tasks, saving you money!


You can take ground school whenever you want. The most successful students, however conduct flight and ground training at roughly the same time, so that the one reinforces the other. FlightInsight can help you do this by streamlining your ground training schedule. With the flexibility of taking this training whenever you want, you'll be able to more easily match it up with your flight training.

This course is closed for enrollment.