Start with no experience. Leave with the skill, discipline and confidence to call yourself a pilot.
Private licences through to commercial training, flown from Wonderboom National Airport.
From the first time you take the controls to the day you earn your licence, our instructors will support you, challenge you and teach you to think like a professional pilot.
Whether flying is a passion, a profession or your next step, there is a route that starts exactly where you are.
01Recreational flying · Private Pilot Licence (PPL)
Learn to fly for yourself — and for the people you'll take with you.
Ground school and your first lessons, building towards the licence that lets you fly yourself and your passengers.
Explore the PPL
02No experience to Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL)
Start with no flying experience and train, step by step, for a career in the cockpit.
A structured route through the Private Pilot Licence, night and instrument training and hour building to the Commercial Pilot Licence — then further training if you choose.
See the career route
03Ratings · Hour building · Professional development
Already a pilot? Add ratings, build hours and sharpen the skills your next step needs.
Night, instrument, multi-engine and instructor ratings, plus hire-and-fly hour building.
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Step by step
Start with the Private Pilot Licence (PPL) — the foundation of every commercial career.
A typical route — every student progresses at their own pace, and the training team will confirm yours.
Explore the trainingStep 01: Begin with private pilot training
Your first licence, and the foundation for everything after it
Step 02: Fly after sunset
Night flying — required before the Commercial Pilot Licence
Step 03: Build flight time and commercial theory
The flying experience and theory examinations commercial training needs
Step 04: Add instrument and multi-engine capability
Instrument flying and more complex aircraft, trained in the aircraft and simulator
Step 05: Qualify as a commercial pilot
Paid professional flying
Step 06: Keep building professional experience
Teach to build hours, or pass the ATPL theory and build the experience the full licence requires
Life at Eagle Air
Training is more than the time in the air. It is the briefing before, the flight itself, and the habits it leaves you with.
Every flight starts on the ground
Briefings, weather and a plan — before anyone walks to an aircraft.
Your hands on the controls
Lesson by lesson, with an instructor beside you until you're ready to fly alone.
Confidence you can see
The checklists become habits. The habits become a pilot.
The fleet
You start on a forgiving trainer and move up to more complex aircraft as your skills grow.
01 · First trainer
Stable and forgiving — where most students learn to fly
02 · Advanced trainer
Retractable gear and a variable-pitch propeller for advanced training
03 · Multi-engine
Multi-engine and commercial training
We train pilots who are confident in the cockpit, disciplined in their preparation and respected for the standard they carry into aviation.
Where you'll train
Every briefing, lesson and flight test happens here. Come and see it for yourself before you decide anything.
This could be your place.
