I've just received an email asking me to call back to the flight school to talk about the curriculum that would be used for my training. Since I'm currently in France, I will have to be patient because we are GMT+1.

Time to get in touch with the instructor to talk about the curriculum. As I have already discovered, we will use and follow a curriculum called CPC Training kit. CPC standing for Cessna Pilot Center.

This is a standard set of the training used at all the Cessna training schools. The training is created by a now famous couple in the world of general aviation: John and Martha Kings. If you have heard about the Kings School, this is their flight school and the CPC is just a Cessna supported version of the Kings school training material.

Curriculum is based on 3 parts:

1. Learning the basic of flying.
2. Learning to navigate and more complex flying situations
3. Preparing for the check ride

When I had mentioned in a previous email that I wanted to try to get the full curriculum, in other words, get the PPL during the 6 weeks that I would be there. The instructors are puzzled and don't think it is possible. I will surely not pushed and we agree and what we see being a more reasonable objective: at least completing the first 2 parts of the curriculum: learning the basics and navigation. I'm not sure how the solo takes place but I would like also after the 6 weeks to have performed my solo flight.

Students usually needs between 60 and 100 hours of flight before completing being able to get their check ride. I will see how much time I will need and I know it is not a competition but I really would like to do in less time. 50 hours would be near perfect. But I might be over optimistic there!