COURSES AND CONVERSIONS

Flight Instructors Course

This is a course which is typically undertaken by students who have just graduated and wish to expand their aviation knowledge and experience or indeed may wish to take it up as a career.
The course is a 31 hour flying course, with the first hour being an acceptance flight (pre entry course requirement). It is challenging at first, given that the student for this course will now fly the aircraft from the right seat for probably the first time in his or her aviation career. Flying and explanation precision are of paramount importance during this course and also thereafter in the role of flight instructor. An ability to teach and understand each individual is also of utmost importance.

The typical amount of ground school undertaken by a student for the flight instructors rating will amount to 125 hours of tuition and self study as the ability to be able to teach on the ground is every bit as important as teaching in the air.
The requirements for entry into a flight instructors course are set out under the training menu of this website.  

CPL / IR Conversion ICAO to JAA

To convert an ICAO CPL/MEIR to a JAA cpl/MEIR would take a student approximately 8 to 9 months and a guide to such a conversion would be as follows;

Class 1 Medical

This is done in the Aeromedical Centre at the Mater Hospital in Dublin and normally takes one and a half days.  

ATPL Theory

The student will need to complete the 14 ATPL subjects and exams as laid out in the commercial pilot section of this website. This will normally take 6 months.  

Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL)

This is training as required and even though every individual may differ the model set out for this conversion at Atlantic is 5 hours of ground school, 5 hours of single engine flight training and 3 hours of multi engine flight training. As mentioned before, this course can be tailored to suit every individuals needs.  

Multi Engine Instrument Rating

This course has specific training hours as set out by the IAA.The ground school will be a minimum of 10 hours,with 5 hours flight training on a single engine aircraft and 10 hours flight training on a twin engine aircraft.