Flight School

Overview

Flight School is a Hobbies and Pastimes activity on Exceptionalists Way at Los Santos International Airport. In GTA V it opens after Friends Reunited and is meant for Michael De Santa and Franklin Clinton, since Trevor is already an expert pilot. The instructor is Jackson. Each of the 12 lessons awards a gold, silver or bronze medal. Getting at least a medal in every lesson counts toward 100% completion. Trevor will tell Michael to take lessons if his flying is weak before the offshore approach in The Merryweather Heist, though this is not required. In GTA Online, a separate ten-lesson version run by JT Boyd opens at Rank 6.

Walkthrough

1. Training Take Off and Runway Landing in a Cuban 800.
2. Inverted Flight, Knife Flight, Flat Hatting (a low-level course through the Port of Los Santos and LSIA) and Touch Down (landing on a bridge at Lago Zancudo) in a Mallard.
3. Loop the Loop in the Mallard.
4. Helicopter Course and Helicopter Speed Run in a Frogger.
5. Skydiving onto a fixed target, then Drop Zone onto a moving one.
6. Earn Your Wings: a city course combining knife flight at green checkpoints and inverted flight at blue ones.

Tips

• Lessons have no checkpoints and no skip option, so a crash means starting over.
• You fail if you destroy or leave the aircraft, stray too far from the course, enter restricted airspace or run out of time.
• For landings, approach slowly and level out early. Precision counts more than speed.

Rewards and unlocks

• Improves the protagonist's Flying skill.
• Medals count toward 100% completion.
• In GTA Online, lessons use aircraft such as the P-996 LAZER, Miljet, Titan, Swift, Besra and Buzzard Attack Chopper.