Pilot Training

ABS members and Life Members are given unlimited access to the ABS Online Learning Center (OLC). To access the ABS OLC, login to your account, go to the Online Learning tab (or click the button above) in your dashboard and select the red Launch OLC button to be taken in to the learning center.

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Initial Training

If you're new to the specific model of Beechcraft®, or you've never completed type-specific training for that model:

BPPP BEST: Your INITIAL Beechcraft® systems and techniques-based training

The BEST course highlights the essentials—the systems knowledge and pilot skills most important to mastering your Beechcraft®. 25 learning modules, averaging 13 minutes each, allow you to view focused topics quickly across the entire range of fixed and mobile online platforms. Information comes from the Beech Pilot’s Operating Handbook, from other manufacturers and experts, and from ABS’ over four decades of experience providing type-specific training to pilots of Beech piston airplanes.

Click here for the BPPP BEST - full course description.

BPPP BEST Options:

S35-V35B, C33A, E33A/C, F33A/C, 36 & A36

Essential systems and techniques training for Bonanzas and Debonairs originally equipped with an IO-520 or IO-550 engine --1964 through 2005 models. This serves as your INITIAL course for training in these airplanes, and optionally as an in-depth, systems and techniques-based RECURRENT course if you'd like to update and increase your Beech knowledge and skills.

H35-P35, 35-33, A33, B33, C33, E33, F33, G33

Essential systems and techniques training for Bonanzas and Debonairs originally equipped with an O-470 or IO-470 engine. This serves as your INITIAL course for training in these airplanes, and optionally as an in-depth, systems and techniques-based RECURRENT course if you'd like to update and increase your Beech knowledge and skills.

 

LEGACY Courses: For pilots of those models not yet covered in a model-specific BEST course:

Legacy Bonanza/Debonair

If this is your first BPPP experience, or you want to refresh and expand your knowledge of your airplane’s systems and how you use them in normal, abnormal and emergency situations, then this is the course for you.  You’ll go through your airplane system-by-system, learning techniques and tricks for getting the most out of your Beechcraft® as well as operating it in a manner that promotes airframe and engine longevity.  The BPPP Legacy Course for Bonanzas and Debonairs consists of 10 modules you may take at your own pace, even stopping and returning in mid-module.  A short quiz at the end of each module highlights the most important points of the program.  

Legacy Baron/Travel Air

If this is your first BPPP experience, or you want to refresh and expand your knowledge of your airplane’s systems and how you use them in normal, abnormal and emergency situations, then this is the course for you.  You’ll go through your airplane system-by-system, learning techniques and tricks for getting the most out of your Beechcraft® as well as operating it in a manner that promotes airframe and engine longevity.  The BPPP Legacy Course for Barons and Travel Airs consists of 10 modules you may take at your own pace, even stopping and returning in mid-module.  A short quiz at the end of each module highlights the most important points of the program.

More BEST courses

New model-specific BEST courses for other Beech models will be introduced over the next year, prioritized by the number of each variant in the flying fleet. New options for focused, type-specific recurrent training are also in development.

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Recurrent/Refresher Training

BPPP FOCUS: Shorter, RECURRENT training to build on what you learned in the BPPP BEST course

BPPP Focus recurrent training is a shorter way to earn a BPPP online course completion certificate and, more importantly, to focus your skills as a Beechcraft® pilot. BPPP Focus builds on the skills you learned in BPPP BEST for a recurrent training option that makes you safer and more confident flying your Beechcraft®.

Each BPPP Focus course consists of about 1.5 hours of online training. 

BPPP Focus Options:

BPPP Focus - IPC

The first BPPP Focus recurrent training option is BPPP Focus: Instrument Proficiency Check. 

Watch for new BPPP Focus recurrent training programs as they become available in the ABS Online Learning Center.

 

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Since 1983 the American Bonanza Society's Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program has been the industry leader in type-specific pilot education. After completing the online course, use the FIND AN INSTRUCTOR function on the TRAINING menu to access a list of ABS Recognized Flight Instructors to privately conduct transition or recurrent flight training.

ABS's goal with the not-for-profit Beechcraft® Pilot Proficiency Program (BPPP) is simple: to protect lives and preserve the Beechcraft® fleet, by significantly increasing ABS members' knowledge of Beech systems, procedures and techniques--the Best in Beechcraft Pilot Training.™