Free MIT Course: Private Pilot Ground School and Aviation Theory

About this course

Explore the theory introduced in private-pilot ground school, including airspace, charts and weather. Watching these lectures does not provide flight instruction, an examination endorsement or a pilot license.

Topics and lesson examples

• Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
• Special Lecture: The How and the Why of IFR
• Special Lecture: Oshkosh 2018

Course at a glance

Preparation and study approach

Suggested preparation: Basic mathematics and an interest in aviation.

Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.

Using this video classroom

Select a lesson from the list, or search for a topic. Previous and Next move through the sequence. You can mark lessons complete; progress is stored in this browser without a WikiFree account.

Free access and course scope

The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.

WikiFree independently organizes these resources for self-paced study. Watching does not award an MIT certificate, academic credit or admission to MIT.

Video provider and credit: MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube. WikiFree titles, descriptions and cover artwork are independently prepared.

Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.