Have you spent hours on end searching for pilot schools to find that there are different types to it? Are you familiar enough with the term Part 141 and Part 61 pilot schools? Part 141 and Part 61 de-scribes the way in which a pilot school is approved, or certified, by the Federal Aviation Administra-tion (FAA). Therefore, we have come to the question of what are the differences between Part 141 and Part 61 pilot schools? Don’t worry, we’ll cover all of those for you here.

What is a Part 141 Pilot School?

A Part 141 Pilot School is one that must use FAA approved curriculums, syllabus and lesson plans. This may come as an inconvenience towards busy professionals in any fields such as doctors, businessmen, or even students, as the time schedules may clash with their work life. Part 141 Pilot Schools are aimed towards those that are looking for a career in aviation. Such situations arise when the student is looking to work as an airline pilot.

Part 141 Pilot Schools is also constantly under the surveillance of the FAA and is undoubtedly strict when it comes to the exams. However, Part 141 Pilot Schools have a lower requirement of flight hours making the program available by the pilot school to be done with a lower flight hour goal alt-hough, the student is allowed to fly for more hours if required. Instructors throughout all Part 141 Pilot Schools are also fairly consistent in terms of quality as the lesson plans and syllabus are pre-designed by the FAA with regular checkins done by the FAA themselves.

What is a Part 61 Pilot School?

Part 61 Pilot Schools exists when an approved FAA instructor trains a student. The FAA instructor, however, may train a student even without any association to any flight schools. 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy is a Part 61 Pilot School as we have numerous FAA approved instructors that are ready to train each student one-by-one. Part 61 Pilot Schools have a much more flexible training environment and schedule that would fit accordingly to the student’s needs as the syllabus is cus-tom made for each student and is done through an interview prior to the flight trainings.

With a less structured training environment, students will be able to fit their training into their tight schedules hence, such programs will be perfect for those of you that hasn’t got months to spare on flight trainings and ground trainings.

What is 14DAYPILOT?

If you haven’t heard about us yet, 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy, LLC is a Flight Training Provider or Pilot School based in Van Nuys, California. The academy builds its foundation on their acceler-ated programs. The 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy is the only approved Transport Security Admin-istration (TSA) Provider in Asia. We intensively monitor your training progress every day and focus on the check ride preparation until you earn the pilot certificate. Least of all, we guarantee that our powerful e-learning system inside the membership area will guide you to pass the FAA oral exam check ride. In addition to this, the knowledge you will receive from our e-learning system may be-come helpful to you in the future. Proven as the industry leader for luxury accelerated flight training with a  NO HIDDEN FEE concept, our program is tailored for those who want to achieve their pilot rating in a short amount of time. By short, we mean days, not months.

As 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy is a VIP program, all of our students are assigned to their own instructor and their own aircraft throughout the program in order to maximise their time with us. This helps accelerate the programs as students are not required to share the aircraft with another stu-dent, meaning no wait-time. Students are also allowed to fly for 5-6 hours daily however, the air-craft is still available for use for up to 8 hours with the senior instructor on stand-by.

Part 141 vs Part 61 Pilot Schools

Both types of pilot schools has got their own advantages and disadvantages with each having dif-ferent methods of teaching. Let’s have a little recap of the pilot schools shall we? Part 141 Pilot Schools must use FAA approved curriculums, syllabus, and lesson plans while Part 61 Pilot Schools exists when an approved FAA instructor trains a student, with or without a pilot school but in this scenario, with a pilot school.

The advantages of Part 141 Pilot Schools lies in the flight hour requirements. In Part 141, the re-quired flight hours, for example, for the Private Pilot License (PPL) would be 35 hours while in Part 61 it would be 40 hours. However, the minor difference in flight requirements does not account to the flight training time as most Part 141 Pilot Schools take 5-months to complete PPL while ours only takes 14 days. Of course, this is owed to the fact that Part 61 Pilot Schools has got a flexible schedule with a flexible syllabus and that 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy assigns an aircraft and a senior instructor to each student. A downside to the Part 141 Pilot School would be that the classes may be too rapid and difficult to catch up with as it is structured and predesigned that way, while Part 61 Pilot Schools such as 14DAYPILOT Flight Academy has interviews prior to the start of the training to allow the students to custom make their own syllabus accordingly.

In conclusion, what does it mean when a pilot school is certified by the FAA? This would mean that the pilot school goes under Part 141 or Part 61. Now which pilot school is better? Such answers would be based upon preference. Whether or not you are willing to spend a longer time on flight training because you’ve got to wait your turn with the aircraft or whether or not you’d like to dismiss the fact that there are slightly more flight hours required in part 61. Remember, time is money.

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