The Career Pilot Program at Pan Am International Flight Academy has been designed to minimize the time you spend training and enable you to begin an airline career much faster than any other flight training schedule. This is an important consideration because airline seniority is the basis for salary, schedule, airline assignment and home airport.

Pan Am International Flight Academy conducts training under FAA Parts 61 and 141. Our training programs are airline oriented, focused, full-time, intensive, fast-track paths to employment. Once enrolled, our students are engaged in an intensive training program that requires a full-time commitment. Schedules are dynamic, similar to the airline environment.

Resume Writing & Interviewing

Getting ready for that next step in your career? Want to get that airline job that you’ve been dreaming about? We can help you make it happen! Airlines have many qualified applicants, but only a limited number of seats in their next hiring class. They want to fill them with qualified applicants with whom they can work and trust. After all, this is an incredible responsibility that they will be entrusting upon you. How can a hiring official know if you are qualified for an interview based only on a sheet of paper? How can that hiring official know that they can trust you to operate a multi-million dollar airplane with paying passengers on board after only a short personal interview?

It is these questions, and more, that bring pilots to Pan Am’s Resume Writing & Interviewing Seminar. The resume, and subsequent interview, will be your first impression with an airline. We can help you make it a good one!

In this one-day course, you will get an idea as to what questions are asked in an airline interview, what common problems interviewees face, and detailed information on the quality of life at each airline. Since some airlines require a simulator evaluation as part of the job interview, to help you prepare, you will get time to polish your skills in our Frasca 142 Multi-Engine Flight Training Device. This device is the same used at some airline interviews. Our experience will help you make a wise career choice and a good first impression that will land you in a seat at your favorite airline’s next pilot class!

Course Length: One day
Course Cost: $495 (Free to Pan Am graduates)

Part 121 Operations

So you have paid your dues working as a flight instructor to build up 1000 hours of flight time… Now you’re ready for that airline ground school, right?

Then, of course, you are already familiar with dispatch release forms, takeoff alternates, Exemption 3585, RVSM, and “green” pilots, right? If not, then we can help you get up to speed on some of the important topics that will be covered in your airline ground school. The airlines will already assume that you are familiar with these topics and will likely not spend time covering them. Pan Am provides a safe environment where you can ask questions and discuss these topics before you have to drink through a fire hose in ground school. If these concepts are new to you, it might be a wise idea to take Pan Am’s short course on Part 121 Operations.

This course will cover dispatch procedures, rest requirements, takeoff and landing weather requirements, 121 maintenance programs, how to operate with inoperative equipment, crew qualifications, airport operations, and more.

Presented in an interactive and stimulating environment, this course will teach you more about 121 Operations and in less time than it will take for you to read and memorize the entire Part. If you are busy working and planning on taking the ATP Knowledge Test, this course will be a time-saver.

Successfully completing Pan Am’s Part 121 Operations course will allow you to interview with an airline and start ground school with confidence!

Course Length: One day
Course Cost: $595 (Pan Am graduates receive a $200 discount)

FMS Training

Have you ever looked into the cockpit of a commercial airliner and thought to yourself “That instrument panel does not look like my Cessna-172. How do those computers work?” Want to learn before you have to go under the gun in an airline ground school? At Pan Am International Flight Academy, we offer a short course taught by experienced airline pilots in Flight Management Systems (FMS). The FMS and autopilot are used together by most airlines to help their pilots control the airplane, navigate, and manage their fuel supply. In an airline, the fundamentals of aircraft navigation and control are similar to those used by any instrument rated pilot, but the technology is much more advanced than a simple vacuum-driven attitude indicator. This short course will allow you the opportunity to learn the application of FMS in a casual environment where students can feel free to ask questions and explore the systems at their own pace.

Our advanced systems classroom is equipped with six realistic FMS simulators! The course begins with exercises on entering flight plans and performance data. Once the student masters the basics of the FMS, they can apply their knowledge to flying holds, approaches, DME arcs, departure procedures, arrival procedures, and more!

Students that enroll in the two-day FMS course will learn how to read Part 121 dispatch releases and apply those skills toward preparing a complete flight plan in their FMS. These students also get the opportunity to put their knowledge to the test in our Level-5 CRJ-200 Flight Training Device. These students will be ready to report to airline ground school with the confidence in knowing that they can master the skills required to complete training and start flying the line!

Summaries of the other Advanced Air Crew Training programs will be added shortly. Please check back.