Considering a career in aviation or exploring flight schools in Memphis, Collierville, Germantown, or nearby? Learn about our pilot programs and rental aircraft. We make flight training fun and efficient. With 30 years of experience, our programs combine best practices from civilian and military aviation. Our professional instructors ensure safety and use proven methods for success.
We prioritize your success with a proven track record of students achieving their goals.
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First Team Pilot Training offers self-paced and structured programs for private pilot, instrument, commercial pilot, and flight instructor (CFI) certificates and ratings. We take pride in our pilot programs and training methods, incorporating traditional methods such as utilizing paper charts and maps for navigation together with new technologies in the digital age of GPS navigation, glass panels, ForeFlight, podcasts and YouTube videos.
After completing our course, your competency will remain well beyond the day you passed a test or checkride. For example, as a Private Pilot student, you’ll be able to teach us the inner workings of a gyroscope and then demonstrate how it functions during flight. Understanding they ‘why’ and ‘how’ leads to knowledge you’ll remember and builds a stronger foundation for future certificates and ratings as you progress toward flight instructor. Expect a fun and enjoyable atmosphere as you learn promoting memorable experiences you will have for a lifetime.
We spent nearly a year selecting our Piper Cherokee aircraft for your training. Then we spent additional time updating their avionics so they all have GPS navigation and modern avionics. Although you will not find vacuum pumps in our planes, you will thoroughly understand how they function, along with magnetos, EFIS, PFDs, MFDs, and more topics required by the FAA ACS and industry standards. There are subtle differences among our Cherokees but they are all PA-28s with similar flight characteristics.
You will have one primary flight instructor and every instructor is here to assist you, answer questions, and understand your goals and communication style. As a team, we focus on CRM – Crew Resource Management – inside and outside the aircraft. Our team meets regularly to share knowledge and experiences so we can learn from one another, provide a consistent training experience and successful outcomes for everyone.
We're pleased to serve students from Brinkley, Earl, Forrest City, Jonesboro, Marianne, Marion, Marked Tree, West Memphis, and Wynne, AR.
Students come to learn with us from all over Northern Mississippi—including Hernando, Horn Lake, Olive Branch, Oxford, Southaven, and Tunica, MS.
As the Memphis Area's top flight instruction school—we serve students from Arlington, Bartlett, Colliverville, Cordova, Eads, Germantown, Lakeland, Memphis, Millington, Munford, Oakland, Rossville, and Somerville, TN and beyond.