PPLLicences
Private pilot licence
Your first licence: 45 flying hours, nine theory exams and a skills test in our four-seat trainers.
- Length
- 6 to 9 months
- Flying
- 45 hrs
- From
- ₦28.5m
12 January, 4 seats
Details
Flight school in Ikoyi, Lagos
From your first lesson to the right-hand seat.
Northwind trains private and commercial pilots for Nigerian and West African flight decks. Pick a programme from the catalogue, plan the whole route with our career path tool, or book a thirty minute discovery flight this weekend.
- 1,840hours flown last year
- 9aircraft and two simulators
- 1:3instructor to students
Figures and intakes are example details for this demo.
Next intakes
Updated weekly (example)| Programme | Starts | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private pilot licence | 12 Jan | 04 | Boarding |
| Airline transport theory | 19 Jan | 11 | Open |
| Commercial pilot licence | 02 Feb | 06 | Open |
| Multi-crew and jet | 09 Feb | 08 | Open |
| Instrument rating | 16 Mar | 03 | Filling |
| Flight instructor | 04 May | 02 | Last seats |
Find your programme
Every programme we run, filterable by stage and format. Save the ones you like to your shortlist and pay a single application fee.
12 programmes
CPLLicences
Commercial pilot licence, integrated
Zero to frozen airline transport licence in one structured course, with instrument and multi-engine ratings built in.
- Length
- 18 months
- Flying
- 200 hrs
- From
- ₦96m
2 February, 6 seats
Details
IRRatings
Instrument rating
Fly by reference to instruments alone, in cloud and on published approaches, with 15 hours in the simulator.
- Length
- 10 weeks
- Flying
- 40 hrs
- From
- ₦14.8m
16 March, 3 seats
Details
ATPL theoryGround school
Airline transport theory (14 subjects)
Classroom and online ground school for all 14 subjects, with mock exams every fortnight and Saturday clinics.
- Length
- 9 months
- Flying
- Classroom
- From
- ₦6.9m
19 January, 11 seats
Details
FIRatings
Flight instructor rating
Learn to teach from the right seat: 125 hours of teaching practice in the classroom and 30 hours in the air.
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Flying
- 30 hrs
- From
- ₦11.2m
4 May, 2 seats
Details
MCC and JOCAirline ready
Multi-crew and jet orientation
Two-pilot flying in a jet procedures simulator: standard calls, checklists and threat and error management.
- Length
- 3 weeks
- Flying
- 40 hrs
- From
- ₦5.4m
9 February, 8 seats
Details
MERatings
Multi-engine rating
Ten hours on our light twin, including engine failure drills after take-off and asymmetric approaches.
- Length
- 3 weeks
- Flying
- 10 hrs
- From
- ₦9.6m
Monthly, 5 seats
NightRatings
Night rating
Five hours of night flying, three of them dual, with lit circuits and a night cross-country.
- Length
- 2 weeks
- Flying
- 5 hrs
- From
- ₦3m
Monthly, 6 seats
TrialShort courses
Discovery flight
Thirty minutes at the controls with an instructor beside you, plus a full briefing and a logbook entry.
- Length
- 1 day
- Flying
- 0.5 hrs
- From
- ₦185,000
Every weekend, 9 seats
Details
TasterShort courses
Ground school taster weekend
Two Saturdays of principles of flight, navigation and meteorology in our Ikoyi classrooms. Good for parents too.
- Length
- 2 days
- Flying
- Classroom
- From
- ₦95,000
Last Saturday monthly, 14 seats
Assessment prepAirline ready
Airline assessment preparation
Group exercises, technical interview practice, aptitude tests and four hours of simulator assessment rehearsal.
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Flying
- 4 hrs
- From
- ₦650,000
Every month, 10 seats
HoursRatings
Hour building block
Twenty five hours of planned cross-country flying with a route pack and debrief, priced per block.
- Length
- 3 to 8 weeks
- Flying
- 25 hrs
- From
- ₦7.1m
Rolling, 7 seats
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Signature tool
Your pilot career path, mapped stage by stage
Eight stages lie between a school leaver and an airline application. Tell the planner where you are starting and where you want to fly, and it builds your route with months, hours and example costs.
Open the career path planner- Class 1 medical 2 to 4 weeks
- Ground school 14 subjects
- Private licence 45 hrs
- Hour building 100 hrs
- Instrument and twin 50 hrs
- Commercial licence Skills test
- Multi-crew Jet simulator
- Airline applications Your first seat
Why students and parents choose Northwind
Flight training is a large decision for a family. These are the six things we are judged on.
Safety first, every flight
Every sortie starts with a briefing card and ends with a debrief entered the same day. Our safety officer reviews every occurrence report on Monday mornings.
One instructor, start to licence
You keep the same lead instructor through each licence, so nobody has to relearn your habits and gaps. Ratio of three students to one instructor.
Fuel and power sorted
We hold a month of fuel at the base and run the simulators on inverter and generator backup, so a grid outage or a fuel queue does not cancel your lesson.
Lessons around Lagos traffic
The academy bus leaves Ikoyi at 5.30am and returns by 2pm, so you fly the calm morning air and miss the worst of the Third Mainland traffic.
Pay in stages
Fees are split by phase, payable by bank transfer, card or POS. Nobody pays an 18 month course up front, and every payment gets a receipt.
A logbook you can trust
Your hours are logged digitally and in ink, countersigned by the instructor and visible to you in real time, ready for any licence or job application.
- 312licences and ratings issued since 2011
- 14instructors, nine of them airline trained
- 96%of booked lessons flown last dry season
- 38graduates now flying for regional operators
Example figures for this demo.
The fleet you will fly
Maintained on site by our own engineers, with every defect logged and cleared before the next flight.
- NW-1 trainerFour-seat, single engine6 aircraft
- NW-2 aerobaticTwo-seat, single engine1 aircraft
- NW-T light twinSix-seat, two engines2 aircraft
- Procedures simulatorFixed base, single and twin1 device
- Jet procedures simulatorTwo-pilot flight deck1 device
In their words
I came for one discovery flight on a Saturday and signed up for the private licence on Monday. The briefings made it feel possible.
The hour building route packs took me to Ibadan, Ilorin and back with real planning every time. My examiner noticed.
My son is in ground school. I get a termly report with his exam marks and flying hours, and the fees schedule never surprised us.
What it costs, plainly
Example rates for the 2026 intakes. Fees are paid phase by phase and include aircraft, fuel, instructor time and landing fees.
| Programme | Length | Flying | Example fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private pilot licence | 6 to 9 months | 45 hrs | ₦28,500,000 |
| Commercial pilot licence, integrated | 18 months | 200 hrs | ₦96,000,000 |
| Instrument rating | 10 weeks | 40 hrs | ₦14,800,000 |
| Airline transport theory (14 subjects) | 9 months | Classroom | ₦6,900,000 |
| Flight instructor rating | 8 weeks | 30 hrs | ₦11,200,000 |
| Multi-crew and jet orientation | 3 weeks | 40 hrs | ₦5,400,000 |
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Not sure yet? Take the controls for thirty minutes.
A discovery flight is the fastest way to find out if flying is for you. Saturday and Sunday mornings, from ₦185,000, with a full briefing and a logbook entry.