CRICOS Course Code
Course Duration
16 weeks.
Course Fee
AUD$ 17,020
(Including GST and all service fees)
Note: Fees are subject to change. Please confirm at the time of your enrolment.
Admission Requirements
- Completion of a Class 2 Medical
- Private Pilot’s Licence & Night VFR rating
- English Language proficiency (please see below for full details)
- 10 Hours of Night Time with 5 hours Pilot in command
- 50 Hours Cross Country Flight Time as Pilot In command
Privileges of Licence
The Command Instrument Rating is the most demanding and challenging to obtain. It requires the development of good hand-eye co-ordination skills, procedural proficiency and the ability to make command decisions. Without a Command Instrument Rating a pilot must operate in visual meteorological conditions (VMC) at all times.
Successful completion of this rating will enable you to operate in nearly all weather conditions. As a charter or airline pilot your employment opportunities are much higher if you are able to fly in all types of weather. Once you have attained it you will be a pilot with abilities shared by only a few at the very top of aviation tree.
Course
Your training commences in the increasingly popular AGMK6 Aeroguidance simulator. This trainer is set up in its single engine mode.The system is fully computerised with all types of navaids, including DME and GPS, and can simulate all sorts of procedures including Air Traffic Control, weather, and the most important emergency procedures that cannot be practiced in real flight. The trainer is also used for recency requirements.
Your training will consist of 15 Hours in the simulator and the remaining hours in the aircraft. This cuts down the cost of the IFR Rating. The flight training component is conducted in the Piper PA28R Arrow.
Course fee includes:
1. Flying
Definitions:
- Dual – Flight training with an instructor
Flying Hours:
- 25 hours dual Piper PA28R Arrow
- 15 hours dual Flight Simulator
2. Theory
- Instrument Rating (including books) -3 weeks full time
3. All briefings by instructors
4. Equipment and Materials
- Departure and Approach Procedures (DAPs)
Note:
If you have an overseas PPL, before you exercise the privileges of this license, you will need to undertake a “flight review” in Australia. It will be necessary to undertake some “familiarisation flying” to get used to flying in the new environment and prepare for the flight review. Please discuss with us so that we can provide an estimate of the hours/costs required.
Landing fees and en-route navigation charges shall be charged separately. An invoice shall be issued by course completion.
CASA fees are not included in your course fees and are payable directly to CASA.. These include licence issue (approximately $50), flight test fees (approximately $600), theory exam fees (approximately $150), aviation medical (approximately $300) and ASIC security clearance (approximately $200).
English Language Requirements:
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requires you to meet ONE of the following English language requirements.
Please note: depending on your country of citizenship, the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection might require you to have undertaken a formal English test for issue of your Student Visa.
To check whether or not you need to have undertaken a formal English test, please visit http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1 (under “Purpose” select “Study in Australia” then look at “eligibility requirements”)
Remember that even if you don’t need a formal test for your student visa, you still need to meet one of the requirements below.
A) The applicant has undertaken or completed his/her secondary education in an Australian or New Zealand educational institution, or the equivalent of an Australian secondary education in a country where one of the principal mediums of instruction had been in English OR the applicant is still receiving secondary education in Australia or New Zealand where the language of instruction at the school is English.
* This means that if you completed High School and the medium of instruction was English at least 50% of the time, you will meet this requirement. We will need a letter from your school to confirm this.
OR
B) The applicant has spent at least three in the past five years of employment in Australia, New Zealand or a specified country (UK, USA, Republic of Ireland, Canada*), where the documented evidence may include a group certificate, a number of pay slips or a letter from your employer stating the period that you worked in that workplace.
OR
C) The applicant achieves at least the minimum score on one of the following English tests (the test must have been taken within the previous 2 years) Note: Level 1 & 2 applicants can select any of the tests below. Level 3 applicants: TOEIC not available to you
i. IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Either General or Academic. Minimum test score of 5.5 with no band less than 5.0.
ii. TOEFL CBT. Minimum score: 197
iii. TOEFL iBT. Minimum score 71
iv. TOEFL Paper Based test. Minimum score 527 (Note: the Department of Immigration only allows this test form a very limited number of countries)
v. TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) Minimum scores: (i) Listening: 350 ii) Reading : 300 (iii) Speaking: 160 (iv) Writing: 140 f.
Note: If you do not meet our requirements for Direct Course entry, you have the option of undertaking a preliminary English course with our associate English College in Melbourne