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How to Find Your Best Ground School Fit

Whether instruction is face-to-face or online, the material presented will be the same. The delivery and learner responsibilities, however, are a bit different.

Moving ground schools online allows students to complete coursework at a time and location convenient to them. [Courtesy: Flight Safety International]
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Key Takeaways:

  • The decision between face-to-face and online ground school largely depends on individual preferences for delivery method and learner responsibilities, as the core material presented is the same.
  • Face-to-face ground schools demand a significant time commitment, adherence to fixed schedules, and may come with strict attendance rules and no refunds for dropouts, making instructor quality crucial.
  • Online courses offer considerable flexibility in pacing, allow learners to revisit lessons, often provide instructor support, and include built-in progress tracking, along with options for specialty training.
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Recently I was reunited with a former classmate I have known since grade school. We had the same teachers who inspired us, and we both became teachers ourselves.

We agreed there were times when compulsory education seemed tedious, and there was the added challenge of having transportation to get to school, wearing “the right clothes,” etc., which was often a distraction. We both could have done without a lot of that, and agreed the experience would have been better experience with the option for remote learning.

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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