Royal Victorian Aero Club - Recreational Aviation
- Phone
- +61 3 9580 0088
- flying@rvac.com.au
- Address
- Moorabbin Airport,
Mentone, Victoria, Australia
Recreational Aviation
Recreational Aviation
Recreational Aviation - the ideal starting point for flight training.
The most cost effective way to learn to fly is to first obtain a Recreational Pilot Certificate (RA) and then, if you wish, move to the General Aviation system and obtain the Private Pilot Licence (PPL).
The Club's RA training facility is located at Coldstream Airport in the Yarra Valley.
The RA system uses light two-seat aircraft administered under an inherently cheaper administration structure by the Recreational Aviation Association of Australia, Inc. (RA-Aus.)
RA flight training hours are recognised as part of the PPL syllabus.
For a Flow Chart Explanation of how RA and GA training work together, click here.
For further information Dick Gower, Bob Boyd or Chris McQuade at coldstream@rvac.com.au
or the RVAC Coldstream flying school on (03) 9739 1406.
RA Instructor Course
Our Recreational Aviation (RA) Instructor training course has now been approved and enquiries are welcomed for a course starting in August.
The minimum RA-Aus. course requirements are 20 hours of dual flight instruction and 30 hours of ground briefings.
The briefing sessions, which will be conducted in small groups, consists of the Principles and Methods of Instruction course as well as the full set of instructor-student briefings.
Minimum experience for the instructor rating test is 75 hours of RA solo experience or 100 hours of GA experience including 25 hours in command. More details of this can be found in the RA-Aus. Operations Manual at www.raa.asn.au.