#73 PRIVATE PILOT Hour Requirements Minimum Initial and Fixed Wing Add On

I have an awesome new coffee cup to share with you in just a second. But today we're going to talk about how many hours for the private pilot and the difference between initial and add on pilot. So today, have fun. That is what the private pilot is supposed to be all about. And check out my new cup. This is awesome. Turn coordinator attitude indicator on the other side. How cool is that? Day 73 Coffee with Kenny. I'm Kenny Keller, creator of helicopter online ground school. There's a link down below to go check out our ground school and we can help you out with the private pilot membership with learning all the information you need to know to become a private pilot. So seven years online, still one of the top five questions we get almost daily is how many hours for the private pilot. That is for the initial, somebody starting out. And then we get a ton of add on pilots, pilots that already have their fixed wing license and want to do the helicopter add on. So here's the big quick, simple breakdown. It's 40 hours minimum for the private initial. It's 30 hours for the add on. If you're a fixed wing, adding the rating, okay, you're gonna have to have 20 hours of dual and then 10 hours of solo. That's regardless of whether you're doing the initial or add on, you're gonna have to have that 20 dual and that 10 solo. Now next I want to mention average private pilot is around 35 years of age. We have a guy that bought an R44 working on his private at 71 years of age. We have a member who got his private and the jet ranger at 72. More and more guys are flying in their 50s, 60s, 70s and even 80s. We hear about instructors still out there teaching. So for those that are later in life, go for it. You've always wanted to do it, you need to do it. And then of course we have very young people flying too. So all ages, people from all types work on the private pilot rating as they should, because you know what private pilot rating is for fun. So go have fun, fly with passengers, take up your friends, take up your family, go somewhere for the $100 hamburger. It's all about having fun. Now there are some requirements for the private pilot rating and you can very simply go to the far a manual, which is the federal aviation regulations Airman's information manual. You can get it on a phone, on a smartphone, on a tablet. You can go get the hard book if you like. Probably going to spend somewhere around 20 bucks to get it. But you're going to spend 10 to 20 grand to get a private license anyway and you're going to have to have the far aim. So to look up the actual requirements, it's 61, 109. Very quick to look up, very easy to look up. And whether you're doing an add on or this is your first private pilot, the examiner the day of the test very well may ask you questions like, well what did you have to do to get your license? You have to know 61109 and you have to be able to go back and reference it and show him the requirements that you covered to get your license. So back to it. To recap, if you're brand new, it's going to be 40 hours minimum. Might take you more like 60 to 70, but 40 is the minimum and some people have done it in 40. If you're doing the add on to your fixed wing, you're going to have to have 30 hours minimum. You could do it in 30. Most people are going to probably be more like 40 for an add on. And again, regardless of whether you're doing the add on or initial, you got to have the 20 to dual and you have to have the tennis solo. Can't get around that. And we also get a lot of fixed wing guys say, well I'm already fixed wing pilot so I just want to do the minimum to get through. Okay, there's your minimum 20 dual, 10 solo. And I want to add a lot of times fixed wing guys will say well what do I have to know? Well, going for the add on, remember examiners are going to go back and retest your private pilot knowledge. So don't skimp and say, well I just want to learn helicopter stuff. I know everything else. I've talked about this plenty in the past. I've had guys that's gotten in trouble on checkrides because they had the attitude of, well I'm already a fixed wing guy so I already know all that stuff. You need to go back and review all your basic stuff because every single checkride, private, commercial, cfi, instrument, they all start out with the same stuff when they sit down with you. The basics of what you got to have. Basics of vfr, VFR navigation. Trust me, add on guys, you got to go back and brush up on your VFR stuff. Okay, this was day 73, coffee with Kenny. We do a video every single day talking about helicopter careers, training, flight, ground, anything you want to talk about. Helicopters is fair game. Put your comments down below. Basically anything you want to talk about helicopter Related a funny story, something you've, you know, come across in training that was funny or even maybe a problem you've been having, a problem you've had trying to get your license. And we'll, if we don't have a video on it already, we'll make a new one. Now to help you get through that test, we have the top 10 checkride tips authored by myself and co authored By Taz Chrisman, 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. We did this book together. I'm going to put a link down below for this book. You can get it for free. We bought a whole pile of them for just shipping and handling. We already bought the book. We paid for it. You pay shipping and handling to get it to your door. I'll put that link down below. It's worth the price of shipping and handling. Trust me. Dan, that's pictured here with me on the back. He went out and interviewed several examiners and asked them the question, hey, we're doing a book on the top 10 checkride tips. And he said, what are you guys seeing as examiners or female in case you have a female examiner. What are you seeing as examiners? Things that are tripping people up. What are the problems when they show up for the test? What are the things that are you seeing on a continual basis? That's a bonus to the book. So we're going to give you. Both of us have 20 years teaching so we put our top 10 best tips and this is things that we see people struggling, people having problems, problems before the checkride problems. The day of the checkride. We're giving you our best, best stuff to help ease the overwhelm and help get you through that test. So have fun private pilots. Have fun. Soon to be private pilots. Please put your comments down below. I am Kenny Keller, Helicopter Align Ground school. We have a private pilot membership. It's only $49 a month. It's self sign up. You can cancel any time. We have people that come in and say hey, I just want to do a refresher for my add on. 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