How do I purchase a course or exam?

Use the navigation menu to navigate to the course or exam that you want to purchase. They are listed in the navigation menu under the following headings: Courses/Exams → Jurisdiction → Qualification → Course. Examples of these are:

Jurisdictions: SACAA, EASA, FAA

Qualifications: PPL(A), PPL(H), Other

Course: Principles of Flight, Meteorology, Night Rating

In the screenshot below, we are purchasing the EASA PPL(A): Meteorology Course:

When on the course page, our software will detect whether your account has a membership that provides access to it. If you do not have access, then you will be shown which products can be purchased to provide access. Click on Purchase for the product you would like. In this screenshot, there is an option to only purchase access to the exam, or a bundle including multiple exams. Once you have selected the product to purchase you will then be taken to the Cart. If you would like to purchase access to more content, repeat the steps above. You can purchase more than one product at a time.

Once you have added products for all the content you want access to into your cart, you can click the Checkout button on the cart page.

If you need to get back to the Cart page from another page, you will find the link to it underneath Store on the navigation menu.

Once on the checkout page, confirm that your order summary contains all the items you want to purchase, and does not contain anything you do not want to purchase. You can always go back to the Cart page to remove unwanted products. If you are happy with the products, you need to agree to our Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, after which your payment options will be displayed. We support various payment processors. We recommend using PayFast if paying from South Africa and FastSpring if you are paying from anywhere else to reduce international payment fees for you. You can use either method from anywhere though.

Fill in the payment details required for the payment processor.

We do not store these details

They are used by the payment processor to facilitate your payment.

If you do not have a user account, you will see the form to sign up. If you already have an account, please sign in before continuing. Select your payment method, fill in the relevant details and click to pay at the bottom right of the page.

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