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• #1 by fruitnroo on March 11th, 2010

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  An aviation training program can be Part 141 or Part 61. Part 141 has a required amount of time to be spent on each skill before moving along, and the amount of time is accounted for by the professor. Part 61 schools are more paced per the needs of the student.

• #2 by sanambrosio on March 11th, 2010

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  Part 141 of the FAR

• #3 by midnytangel18 on March 11th, 2010

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  What is Part 141?: Certification as a FAA approved Flight School under CFR PART 141 training is closely supervised by the government. The school must follow an approved syllabus, the Chief Flight Instructor and Assistant Chief Flight Instructor must take annual check rides from the local FAA Flight Standards District Office. Plus, the FAA conducts random “spot checks” of school records, facilities and aircraft.

  What does this mean to the student?:

  Standardized training: You will be trained to the highest possible standards in well maintained aircraft by motivated instructors.

  Formal Ground school: You will be required to get a minimum number of formal ground school hours. Perhaps the most common remarks by Flight Examiners is that the students knowledge level when they go thru Part 61 flight training is not what it should be. Most Part 61 instructors hand you a book and say “study for the test”.

  Reduced flight hours: Under Part 141, you get more dual flight instruction and follow a formal syllabus, so the FAA allows you to get your Private Pilot License in 35 hours instead of 40 hours.

• #4 by dhonirulez on March 11th, 2010

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  Part 141 is a part of the Federal Aviation regulations.It consists of many subsections relating to Aviation.

• #5 by newfaldon on March 11th, 2010

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  As someone else already mentioned, Part 141 schools are more structured and more regulated.

  I do have one disagreement with them however and that is, a 141 school does not guarantee you a better education nor does it necessarily make you a better pilot than someone who trained part 61.

  Case-in-point… there is a local university with a part 141 school which will remain nameless. We have a part 61 school. One of the local examiners typically takes two people at a time for PPL checkrides. The oral is done side by side and then one waits while the other takes his/her ride. One of our students took the oral beside a student from this university… while the kid from the 141 school was fumbling and missing answer, our student was answering them spot on. The same examiner has told our chief flight instructor that our students are the best prepared he sees. Also, we’ve had some issues with graduates from this 141 school showing some bad decision making and an over reliance on technology (“Oh no, the GPS isn’t working on a VFR day, we need to cancel the flight.”)

  I don’t mean to float our own boat here, merely to show that Part 61 schools are not necessarily any worse than Part 141 schools.