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Pilot Career Solutions

Our course, pricing, and how to support the guide.

Everything on this site is free: the guides, the calculators, the syllabus and the workbook. The video ground school is still being built; the preview below shows what it will look like, with sample data. Calls with the captain are available now. Here is what is coming, what it will cost, and how working pilots can help keep it accurate.

Prices and plans last verified September 27, 2026 · the course preview is illustrative · how we verify
Inside the course

Private Pilot ground school, built right.

Video lessons, practice tests, FAA-style question bank, and a certificate of completion when you pass. Click through the tabs to preview. A preview of a course still being built: the lesson counts, scores and dates shown are illustrative.

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Sample Student
Private Pilot Ground School 62% complete
Practice test score
82%
Last attempt · 20 questions · 80% opens the next module
Study streak
12 days
Keep going — aim for 30.
Next coaching call
Tue, May 19 · 7 PM
Group session: "Cross-country planning"
Module 04 · Lesson 06

Reading METAR & TAF reports

What you'll learn
  • Decode a METAR string in under 30 seconds
  • Understand TAF time validity windows and amendments
  • Recognize the seven critical conditions that mean "do not go"
  • Pre-flight weather briefing using Leidos / 1800wxbrief.com
Question 14 of 60 · FAA-style

An aircraft is flying at 5,500 ft MSL. The altimeter setting is 30.12. The aircraft transitions through an area with a setting of 29.85 without resetting. The indicated altitude will now read:

Correct! "From high to low, look out below." When flying into lower pressure without resetting, the altimeter reads higher than your actual altitude — which is dangerous near terrain.
Certificate of Completion

Private Pilot Ground School

This certifies that

Sample Student

has successfully completed the Pilot Career Solutions™ Private Pilot ground school curriculum, including the ground modules, the practice tests, and a final knowledge assessment scoring 84%.

Course Director
Date · (sample)
Cert № PREVIEW-00000

Note: A Pilot Career Solutions certificate of completion is not a substitute for a CFI's endorsement to take the FAA Private Pilot knowledge test (FAR §61.35 / §61.103). Endorsements must be issued by a certificated flight instructor after reviewing your individual preparation. We intend the finished course to include endorsement review by a named, certificated instructor; that arrangement does not exist yet, and until it does this is a study aid, not a ground school. Sporty's, King Schools, Gleim, and Pilot Institute sell knowledge-test courses that include the endorsement today.

Pricing

Start free.
Upgrade when you're ready.

The free career guide is live today. Premium products are still in development — drop your email and we'll let you know the moment each one launches.

Honest heads-up — paid products are not live yet

Our premium products are still being built.

The tiers below show what's in development. We're working on the ground school videos, practice question bank, resume coaching service, and live community features — they'll launch in stages throughout 2026.

We chose to publish the site early so the free career information, calculators, lesson templates, glossary, and study resources would be available to help aspiring pilots right now — rather than waiting for everything to be perfect. Until our own services launch, we recommend products and companies we genuinely believe in (with full disclosure) so the site can stay funded without putting useful information behind a payment.

What this means for you: Use every section, every tool, every calculator on this site, free, today. Click "Notify me when ready" on any tier and we'll email you the moment it launches. No card stored, no waitlist commitment, no spam — just one email when each product goes live.

Available now
Career Guide
Freeforever
  • Full career roadmap & path guides
  • Cost & timeline calculator
  • Pay comparison data
  • Lesson plan template (printable)
  • Glossary & ACS reference decoder
  • Every section on this site
In development
Test Prep
Soonin development
  • Full Private Pilot ground school videos
  • 1,200+ FAA-style practice questions
  • Interview prep guide
  • Progress tracking & certificate
  • Mobile-friendly study app
In development
1-on-1 Coaching
Soonin development
  • Everything in Full Program
  • Direct 1-on-1 with active airline pilot
  • Personalized written exam strategy
  • Mock airline interviews (live)
  • Career path consulting
  • Priority email support
The one thing that isn't free

Talk to a captain. Your situation, real numbers, a written plan.

Every guide and calculator on this site is free. The one thing that can't be a web page is a conversation about your decision with an active legacy-airline captain who made it recently and hires the outcome every week. Book a time, pick phone or video, pay when you book.

What a call is not: flight instruction; legal, medical, or financial advice; a job or interview guarantee. I speak only for myself, from public information and my own experience, never on behalf of any airline, and I don't discuss anything internal to one. No affiliate pitch and no school with money behind it. Reschedule or cancel free up to 24 hours before; if a flying schedule forces me to cancel, you get a full refund or a new time.

Tell us about yourself

Two minutes now saves ten on the call — or just say hello.

Fill this out before a call so we start on your situation, not on introductions. No call booked? Send it anyway and you will get a reply from a real pilot, usually within a day or two. It goes straight to hello@pilotcareersolutions.com; nothing is stored on this website. Used the plan wizard or a calculator? Your numbers come along automatically.

A call is career guidance from a working pilot. It is not flight instruction, and it is not legal, financial, or medical advice. Terms · Privacy

Sends straight from this page to hello@pilotcareersolutions.com. Please do not include medical details; yes / no / unknown is all we need.

The free career guide is fully live today. Paid tiers are still in development — drop your email when you click "Notify me when ready" and you'll be the first to hear when each one launches. No card on file, no waitlist commitment.

Help us help the next generation

Support the cause.

This site is independent, ad-free, and free to use. If we've helped your career — or if you're a working pilot who wants to give back — there are two ways to support what we're building.

A note from us

We built this for the community. The community helps keep it growing.

Pilot Career Solutions runs on the paid calls, on store links marked (affiliate) where they exist, and on direct community support. Every dollar — and every pilot who shares their experience — directly improves the resource the next generation of aspiring pilots will use to find their way. If this site helped you, here's how you can pay it forward. No pressure, no required donations, no membership fees. Just two open doors.

Path 01 · For working pilots

Are you a working pilot with specific knowledge of your airline?

One of the hardest parts of building a career-resource site is keeping the airline-specific details accurate and current. Pay scales change. Contracts get amended. Flow programs shift pace. Working pilots have ground truth that no aggregator website does.

If you fly for a U.S. airline (regional, ULCC, LCC, legacy, or cargo) and want to help us keep our airline pages accurate and useful, we'd genuinely love to hear from you.

  • Verify pay scales against current CBAs for your airline.
  • Share day-in-the-life insights — schedule, base culture, upgrade pace, what's actually good vs marketed.
  • Flag outdated info on the site — flow timelines, hiring conditions, contract changes.
  • Contribute interview-prep notes for your airline if you've recently been through the process.
  • Mentor an aspiring pilot through our future mentor-matching program when it launches.
Get in touch

Prefer to talk? Call or text (732) 737-7672 (Google Voice — leave a message and I call back).

Path 03 · Talk to a captain

Want an honest read on your situation?

Thirty or sixty minutes with an active legacy-airline captain, by phone or video, with a written action plan afterward. It is the one paid thing on this site, and it stays honest: no affiliate pitch, no guarantees, no airline internals.

See the calls and prices
About tips & contributions Pilot Career Solutions operates as a sole proprietorship, not a registered nonprofit, so tips are not tax-deductible and we do not call them donations. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card details. If our structure ever changes, this note will say so.