How It Helps
Ground Time That Counts
Procedures, checklists, and approaches are easier to learn when you're not also fighting the airplane. Simulator sessions let you rehearse on the ground so your time in the air is spent refining, not relearning.
What You Can Practice
By Certificate & Rating
Private Pilot
- Checklist Flows & Cockpit Familiarization
- Emergency Procedures
- Radio Communications & ATC Phraseology
- Traffic Pattern & Procedure Practice
2.5 hrs
Max loggable toward flight training · 14 CFR 61.109
Instrument Rating
- Holding Patterns & Procedure Turns
- Precision & Non-Precision Approaches
- Partial Panel & Unusual Attitude Recovery
- IFR Departure & Arrival Procedures
20 hrs
Max loggable instrument time (AATD) · 14 CFR 61.65
Commercial Pilot
- Precision Maneuver Rehearsal
- Emergency & Abnormal Procedures
50 hrs
Max loggable toward total time · 14 CFR 61.129