Layang Layang Flying Academy
Practical guides to pilot training in Malaysia — licences, entry requirements, medicals, costs and the route from first lesson to a professional cockpit.
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Two pieces of training sit between a Frozen Airline Transport Pilot Licence and an airline flight deck. What each one is, what it costs, and how…
Read the guide: Multi-Crew Cooperation and Type Rating: What Comes After a Frozen Airline Transport Pilot LicenceGetting Started
Ten things worth doing in the months before an intake, starting with the medical and ending with the expectations most new cadets get wrong.
Read the guide: How to Prepare Before Day One of Commercial Pilot TrainingGetting Started
Standard phraseology, readback discipline and the language proficiency rating on your licence — why how you speak is assessed as seriously as how you fly.
Read the guide: Radio Telephony and English Language Proficiency for Malaysian PilotsTraining & Fleet
Planning a route, flying it, and coping when the forecast wind turns out to be a forecast. The phase where command judgement is actually built.
Read the guide: Night Flying and Cross-Country Navigation in Commercial Pilot TrainingLicences & Ratings
Approach plates, holding patterns, the decision point and the missed approach — the procedures that let an aircraft descend through cloud to a runway it cannot…
Read the guide: Instrument Approaches Explained: Holding, Precision and Non-Precision ProceduresLicences & Ratings
The flight that turns training into a licence. What is assessed on the ground, what is flown in the air, and why judgement fails more candidates…
Read the guide: The Commercial Pilot Licence Skill Test: What the Examiner Is Looking ForTraining & Fleet
Effects of controls, circuits repeated until they are consistent, and the twenty minutes when the seat beside you is empty for the first time.
Read the guide: Your First Solo: What the Early Weeks of Flight Training Are Really LikeGetting Started
Eight steps between deciding to train and your first lesson, in the order that avoids wasted money — and the four things that most often delay…
Read the guide: From First Enquiry to First Flight: The Application Timeline ExplainedTraining & Fleet
Not 200 hours of the same thing. How the flying phase is built, what each block of hours is for, and why a one-hour sortie takes…
Read the guide: The 200 Flying Hours: How Commercial Pilot Licence Flight Training Is StructuredLicences & Ratings
Theory is the largest single block of a professional pilot course. What the 850 hours contain, how the days are structured, and what separates the cadets…
Read the guide: Inside 850 Hours of Ground School: How Airline Transport Pilot Licence Theory Is Taught
