Welcome to Learn to Fly, your step-by-step library for becoming a pilot.
Start here
- How to Become a Pilot
- Student Pilot Certificate
- Private Pilot License
- The Private Pilot ACS and Checkride
- The PHAK: the FAA’s core pilot textbook
- FAA Medical Certificate
Topic guides
- How Airplanes Work: aerodynamics, engines, instruments and V-speeds
- Airspace and Weather: airspace classes, weather minimums and reading METARs and TAFs
- Airport Operations: signs, markings, lighting and light gun signals
- Navigation
- Radio Communications
- Aircraft Performance
- Flight Maneuvers: from steep turns and stalls to the commercial maneuvers
- Training Aircraft, including the Cessna 172
- Memory Aids: ATOMATOFLAMES, ARROW, AV1ATES, IMSAFE and more
- Endorsements: complex, high-performance and tailwheel
- Instrument Rating
- Commercial Pilot Certificate
- Flight Simulators
- Aviation Headsets and the Pilot Gear Guide
Free study tools
Each of these runs in your browser, with no account needed.
- Private pilot practice test built from FAA sample questions
- Part 107 practice test for the remote pilot knowledge test
- Mock oral exam with checkride questions by ACS area
- ACS progress tracker for every private pilot task
- Light gun signals quiz
- METAR decoder and TAF decoder
- Calculators: crosswind component, wind correction angle, density altitude, pressure altitude, true airspeed, weight and balance and VFR cruising altitude
- Pitot-static blockage simulator