FLY8MA.com, an Online Private Pilot Ground School

By Jon Kotwicki

So, how and where are you supposed to start your flight training, and how much is it going to cost you?

This is the everlasting question faced by anyone who has ever gazed skyward and had the dream of one day flying their own aircraft. Luckily, the guys at FLY8MA.com have an easy answer to that question now.

FLY8MA.com is the first complete Online Private Pilot Ground School where you can enroll for free on their website. The ground school is designed as the perfect place to begin your training, costing you nothing to sign up, and giving you the knowledge you need to be successful and safe once you begin your actual flight lessons. Most importantly, it will save you a lot of time and money.

The FLY8MA Ground School is made up of 20 lessons, and there are over 150 short videos with classroom and airplane footage to show you exactly what you can expect when you step into the airplane. The course was designed by Jon Kotwicki, a CFI that was working for the University of Michigan when he started flying as a hobby seven years ago. He became a Flight Instructor when he realized that there was a better and simpler way to explain some of the complex topics of flying to students. After refining his teaching techniques over thousands of hours of flight instruction, Jon has found a way to teach the basics of flying, aerodynamics, weather, and so on, all in the shortest and most clear manner possible.

Working as an airline pilot and actively flight instructing in his free time, Jon and the guys at FLY8MA.com set out to provide an easier pathway for anyone interested in becoming a private pilot. That is how the idea of FLY8MA got started.

As a way to give back to the aviation community that has given them so much. Jon and the other instructors and pilots at FLY8MA have spent thousands of hours combined to build the best possible ground school out there, and still make it free for everyone. The Private Pilot Ground School has been open now for about six months, and currently has over 5,300 students enrolled. With 4.9 out of 5 stars, all of the reviews of the course have been extremely positive, and every single student who has completed the course has also passed their Private Pilot Checkride on the first try! “Since we’ve opened up the course, students have been emailing in and telling us how greatly it has helped them with their training, and how many of them would not have been able to get their start in aviation if they hadn’t found our course. Just hearing that from so many students has made all the work that we put into this course totally worth it. When you know you are making a positive difference in students lives, making them better and safer pilots, then you know you’re doing your job as a Flight Instructor” -Jon K.

You can sign up for the free Private Pilot Ground School at FLY8MA.com by clicking “Register” in the top right corner of the page. You can also follow the FLY8MA guys on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook to keep up with the latest flight training tips and videos they post each week.