Gyrocopter

As well as pre-booked training by the hour, Alba Airsports also offers an option of 5-day intensive training courses for student pilots. Courses cater for students who want to train for a Private Pilot’s Licence for Gyroplanes or PPL(G) in addition to advanced flying training for existing pilots. Training courses are held during the week with a maximum of two students on each intensive training week. Students take it in turns to fly and depending on their stage of training, may share briefings.

During intensive training you can expect to fly an average of two and a half hours each day. Learning to fly is very intense and it takes a while for your brain to assimilate what you’ve been taught so it’s important to build in rest time. We discourage students from booking intensive training weeks back-to-back because it isn’t the most productive way to learn. You need time to fully understand and absorb everything you’ve learned. The optimum gap between training weeks is between one and four weeks, however, it is not unusual to have students who are learning to fly over a couple of years and have longer gaps between each intensive week.

We fully understand and respect that you will probably use valuable free time in learning to fly and we make every effort to fly despite sometimes less than ideal weather conditions. We will sometimes rearrange the order that things are taught to make the best use of the varying British weather conditions. When flying is not possible we switch our attention to the various ground school topics to ensure that time isn’t wasted.

Feedback has shown that it can be extremely beneficial to immerse yourself in training when learning to fly and our intense training courses are designed. However, if it is not possible for you to enrol in an intensive course, we will work with you to deliver a training programme via shorter lessons over a longer period.