Recreational Pilots Licence Course WCM, CCM & LSA

The following is a brief outline of the Recreational Pilots Licence course.

Click here for the current RAASA fees associated with your proposed training and licensing.

The Learner/student will do Lectures & exams on the following:

1. Principals of Flight instruction
2. Engines / Airframes & Instruments
3. Meteorology
4. Airlaw
5. Navigation
6. Principals of Flight
7. Human Performance Limitations

During this time the learner/student will participate in flying training and cover excercises 1-27. Click here to view the exercises the learner student will go through during the course of their training.

The instructor will go over each flying excercise in detail through the hour of flying.

The learner/student has a sponge of knowledge and that sponge is taking so much information in over one hour that it becomes saturated and the student does not learn anymore thereafter.

On average, the Learner/student pilot, will have completed approximately 25hrs of dual flying before she or he is ready for solo. I say approximately, as everybody is different in learning this very odd concept of flying. This time can be different between young and old. Some people pick up the concept quickly and some take longer.

Never be in a rush to go solo.

Online exams are now a part of the curriculum and will need to be completed in a controlled environment at Light Flight.

Read an article on "Can anyone fly?"

Advanced Flying Courses

On request, the instructors at Light Flight will give you advanced microlight training to better your safety, ability and confidence as a microlight pilot. We will teach you to handle your microlight weight shift or fixed wing aircraft in un-natural attitudes, we will help you to land in small spaces and to become confident.

We will also teach you to land your weight shift aircraft with the engine switched off. Please book the advanced flying course with us at: info@lightflight.co.za

Below are the following exercises you can expect on an advanced flying course:

• Steep turns
• Precautionary Landings
• Low level flying
• Navigation
• Bad weather rapid decent
• Forced Landings under simulated engine failure
• Short field landings
• Thermal flying
• Formation flying
• Wing overs (within limitations)
• Mountain flying
• Radio procedures into controlled airspace such as Pietermaritzburg

Instructors Course

If you have in the region of 200 solo flying hours then you may apply to do the instructors course held at Light Flight under Geoff Dyers guidance. You will start off as a "C" grade instructor then after 200 instruction hours you are able to do an upgrade to a "B" grade instructor. Finally, after 500 instruction hours you can do the "A" grade instructor upgrade. As a PPL instructor wanting to convert to LSA you will have to phone RAASA to find out more details.

Light Flight was the first microlight school in South Africa to hold regular comprehensive instructor training.  These courses have been held at Light Flight since 1992. Over 100+ candidates have completed the course, many of them from the surrounding territories of Namibia, Malawi and Zambia.  There have even been a few from the United Kingdom and Germany.

The course is run at Light Flight farm in Cato Ridge and lasts a week.  Six to eight hours of lectures daily are given as well as instructor's flying patter by experienced full-time A-Grade instructors.  Examinations are then written and an Instructor's Flight Test is completed.

Light Flight has set the standard for MISASA (The Microlight Section of the Aeroclub of South Africa).  Geoff Dyer is currently the Head of Licensing and Training for MISASA.

Light Flight does both weight-shift Trike Instructor courses as well as advanced Ultra-Light 3-Axis Instructor training. The following is a brief outline of the Instructor Course:

1. The make up of an instructor 
2. The teaching process
3. Airmanship

Lectures & exams on the following:

1. Principals of Flight instruction
2. Meteorology
3. Airlaw
4. Navigation
5. Principals of Flight
6. Human Performance Limitations

There are loads of other activities on offer in and around the LIGHT FLIGHT area! Why not go game viewing at the nearby TALA GAME RESERVE - ask our team about the quad bike excursions offered to this beautiful area.