Changes: Flight School

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For the school in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, see Pilot School.

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To learn highly technical aerial maneuvers - or just how to land without killing yourself in a ball of fire - visit the Flight School at Los Santos International Airport

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— GTA V Digital Manual

The Flight School is an activity in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.

Overview

Located on Exceptionalists Way at the Los Santos International Airport in Los Santos, San Andreas. In Story Mode, it becomes available after the mission Friends Reunited. In Online, it becomes available after the player downloads The San Andreas Flight School Update and is at least rank 6.

Description

Only Michael and Franklin need to take lessons to increase their flying skills, unlike Trevor who is already an expert pilot. Trevor will tell Michael to attend the school if his flying skill is not high enough, if the player chooses the Offshore method after the mission Scouting the Port. Note that Michael is NOT required to go to Flight School in order to initiate the heist, however the training is useful. [1]

Like the Pilot School in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the player will learn to fly airplanes, helicopters, and to perform skydiving. There are 12 lessons in total and for each one the player will be awarded with a different medal (gold, silver, or bronze), depending on how well the player completes the lesson. Mission failure will occur if the player crashes the aircraft, strays too far away from the course and enters an out-of-bounds area, or takes too long to complete the lesson. Unlike missions, these exercises do not have checkpoints or the skip option (after failing 3 times).

In GTA Online, the flight school consists of 10 solo lessons that include combat maneuvering, low-flying challenges, formation flying, and more. The player will unlock the Elitas T-shirt after completing all 10 lessons with at least a bronze medal, and will earn $18,600 if each lesson is completed with a gold medal. If the player's first completion of each of the 10 lessons earns a gold medal, they will receive a combined maximum total of 13,950 RP and $232,500, making Flight School one of the most potentially lucrative activities available online.

The flight instructor in GTA V is Jackson, while the flight instructor in GTA Online is JT Boyd.

Lessons

GTA V

The twelve lessons to pass are:

Lesson	Description	Given Vehicle	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Training Take Off	Take off and pass through two checkpoints.	Cuban 800	00:32	00:50	01:00
Runway Landing	Land safely on the runway.	Cuban 800	00:35	00:55	01:10
Inverted Flight	Perform barrel rolls and fly upside down.	Mallard	01:40	02:00	02:20
Knife Flight	Fly sideways and maintain altitude with the rudder.	Mallard	00:54	01:15	01:40
Flat Hatting	Fly a checkpoint course through the Port of Los Santos and the LSIA maintaining a low altitude.	Mallard	02:15	02:35	03:00
Touch Down	Land a plane on a bridge in Lago Zancudo as close as the final checkpoint as possible.	Mallard	10 ft	45 ft	Finish
Loop the Loop	Perform an inside loop.	Mallard	01:35	01:40	02:05
Helicopter Course	Fly through checkpoints in a helicopter through Los Santos.	Frogger	02:40	03:15	03:45
Helicopter Speed Run	Fly through checkpoints in a helicopter through the Palomino Highlands and Los Santos as fast as possible.	Frogger	02:10	03:00	03:30
Skydiving	Skydive and land on a stationary target.	n/a	3 ft	10 ft	20 ft
Drop Zone	Skydive and land on a moving target.	n/a	0 ft	7 ft	20 ft
Earn Your Wings	Course through the city performing stunts learned in the previous lessons. Green checkpoints are for knife flights and blue checkpoints for inverted flights.	Mallard	02:50	03:15	03:40

GTA Online

The ten lessons to pass are:

Lesson	Description	Given Vehicle	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Outside Loop	Perform an outside loop.	P-996 Lazer	00:58	01:20	02:00
Engine Failure	Land the Miljet with an engine failure.	Miljet	10m	30m	Finish
Chase Parachute	Catch a parachute in midair and land safely.	n/a	2m	4.50m	7m
City Landing	Land a plane in bad weather conditions.	Titan	10m	30m	Finish
Moving Landing	Land a Swift on a flatbed trailer before it drives into the tunnel.	Swift	00:19	00:25	01:00
Formation Flight	Fly in formation.	Besra	600	450	300
Shooting Range	Destroy targets using a Buzzard.	Buzzard Attack Chopper	25	15	10
Ground Level	Fly through checkpoints, keeping as close to the ground as possible.	Besra	1m	3m	10m
Collect Flags	Fly through 30 checkpoints in any order.	Besra	02:40	03:00	Finish
Follow Leader	Follow your instructor.	P-996 Lazer	02:25	02:40	Finish

There was also originally a lesson named "Escort Cargo". It is unknown what the lesson objective was, but the Flight School menu image implied that the player was to use a P-996 Lazer to help a Titan land.

Gallery

Videos

GTA Online - The San Andreas Flight School Update

GTA 5 - Flight School (Gold Medals)

GTA Online - Flight School Missions (Gold Medals)

Soundtrack

Main article: Flight School/Soundtrack

Trivia

The flight school's logo is a pun on the phrase "on a wing and a prayer", being an image of two hands clasped as if for prayer backed by a pair of wings.
The school was established in 2004, the same year Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released.
Although Trevor is an experienced pilot from his military past, he can still go to the school and finish the exercises to reach 100% flying skill faster. Despite his experience, Jackson will still call him a beginner during the lessons.
Dom Beasley appears in the video introduction of the Skydiving and Drop Zone lessons.
The flight instructor in GTA Online seems to be quite rude and likes to trash talk his students, which may be a slight reference to the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket.
In Moving Landing image, the Swift is supposed to land onto a Flatbed, but in-game, it was replaced by a truck and a Super flatbed trailer, obviously because is too small for a Swift.
- However it is suitable for a Buzzard, the former helicopter.

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