Your purchase. Your refund terms.

The Private Pilot Course is offered as a one-time purchase with lifetime access. Its product page and checkout present these terms before payment. At checkout, you accept them with an explicitly unchecked box before continuing to Stripe.

The course conditions below also apply to the Instrument Rating and Commercial Pilot courses. Their included guides form part of the course purchase and follow its course refund conditions, not the separate-PDF window. Any other product requires its own active checkout and the policy presented with that purchase.

• Private, Instrument and Commercial courses: 30 calendar days, subject to the three course conditions below.
• Individual guides, The Flight Review Guide and PDF-only bundles: 7 calendar days, whether opened or downloaded.
• Written Test Prep PAR, IRA and CAX: 14 calendar days, without usage limits.

These windows run from the purchase, not from the first time you open a product. The Quick Reference Library and packs containing non-PDF products are not PDF-only bundles; these terms do not silently activate or change an unlisted offer.

The Private Pilot Course is a one-time purchase of $99 USD. It is not a subscription, there is no automatic renewal, and no recurring charge is ever created for it.

You can request a full refund within 30 calendar days of your purchase. To qualify, all of the following must also be true at the time of the request:

• your server-recorded course completion is below 80%;
• you have not submitted a request for final instructor review or for a knowledge-test endorsement; and
• no completion credential has been issued to you.

These are material limits on the refund, not fine print: they are stated here, on the product page and at checkout before you pay.

You can request a full refund within 7 calendar days of your purchase of an individual Quick-Review Guide, The Flight Review Guide, or a bundle containing only PDFs, including the Complete 6-Guide Bundle.

There is no requirement that the file remain unopened or undownloaded. Opening or downloading it does not affect refund eligibility.

A guide included with an Instrument or Commercial course belongs to that course purchase, which follows the course conditions above.

You can request a full refund within 14 calendar days of purchase of a PAR, IRA or CAX Written Test Prep bank.

There are no limits on questions answered, practice exams taken, or other usage. Each bank remains a separate one-time purchase with 24 months of access from confirmed payment, no subscription and no automatic renewal. Courses, guides and the official examination fee are not included.

An approved refund is returned to the original payment method. When it is issued, the paid entitlement for the course is revoked and access ends. A refund is a reversal of the purchase, not a way to keep the material.

For a course that includes a guide, an approved refund reverses that course-and-guide purchase. For a PDF-only or Written Test Prep purchase, it reverses the purchased product and its license/access. Separately purchased access is not part of that refund.

Send refund requests to fly@pilotmethodaviation.com or by post to JD ATLAS LLC, 1625 Northwest 20th Street, Apt 338, Miami, Florida 33142, United States. Include the email address on the order.

Nothing here removes a right you cannot waive under the consumer-protection law that applies to you. Separately from the window above, if we materially fail to deliver the access you paid for and the failure is attributable to The Pilot Method, we will fix the access or refund you — whichever you reasonably prefer — even outside the 30 calendar day window.

The Private Pilot Course is Part 61 home-study support. It is not FAA approved, it is not a Part 141 approved course, and completing it never automatically grants an endorsement; a qualified instructor makes that decision manually. Purchasing gives you a personal, nontransferable license for your own training use.

This version applies to purchases accepted under Refund Policy 1.1 from 2026-09-08. Earlier acceptance records are preserved and are not replaced by this update.Read archived Refund Policy 1.0.