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JD ATLAS LLC operates The Pilot Method, which publishes independent educational material for pilots and for people considering flight training. Using the site means you accept these terms.

Written questions and notices go to fly@pilotmethodaviation.com, through the contact form, or by post to JD ATLAS LLC, 1625 Northwest 20th Street, Apt 338, Miami, Florida 33142, United States.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The agreed venue for disputes is Miami-Dade County, Florida, on a non-exclusive basis: nothing here removes a right you cannot waive under the consumer-protection law of the place you live, including the right to bring a claim where that law allows it.

Creating an account does not grant access to any product.

Access is recorded per product. There is no all-access membership.

Access to one course never includes another course, checkride preparation, or instructor tools.

Instructor access is verified by us. Asking for it during sign-up records a request and nothing more.

Your account holds your profile, your account type, and the products you have access to. Access is granted per product — signing in does not open anything you have not been given.

The Pilot Method is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. It is not an FAA-approved or certificated training provider, and nothing here is an FAA-approved course, curriculum, endorsement, sign-off, or authorization to act as pilot in command or to conduct any flight or operation.

Material here does not substitute for the current regulations, NOTAMs, an official weather briefing, the current POH or AFM for your aircraft, the approved checklist, the manufacturer's or a certificated mechanic's maintenance guidance, or instruction from a qualified, appropriately rated instructor.

Regulations, procedures and aircraft documentation change. Where we publish reference material we show its source mapping, content version and last-reviewed date; you remain responsible for verifying currency against the authoritative source before you rely on it.

The pilot in command holds final authority for the operation of an aircraft. Practice tools, readiness indicators and mock oral features are study aids only. They are not a practical test, not an evaluation of your competence, and not evidence of readiness for any checkride.

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account details and for keeping your credentials secure. Accounts are personal; access granted to you is not transferable. Roles such as instructor are granted only after review, and we may suspend access that is misused.

The Private Pilot Course is offered as a $199 USD one-time purchase with lifetime access. A charge can be created only through an active checkout on its product page, after you sign in and explicitly accept the documents presented there. The applicable terms and exact refund policy are available before payment on the refund policy page.

The Private Pilot Course purchase does not include any other product. Every separate product requires its own active checkout. There is no subscription or membership offered on this site.

Access is granted only after the payment processor confirms the payment. A purchase gives you a personal, nontransferable license to use the product for your own training. The Private Pilot Course costs $99 USD, does not renew automatically, and is governed by the price, refund terms and limitations shown in full before payment on the refund policy page and at checkout, where you must tick an unchecked box to accept them. The course is Part 61 home-study support. It is not FAA approved, it is not a Part 141 approved course, and finishing it never produces an automatic endorsement — a qualified instructor decides that manually, or not at all.

The Instrument Rating and Commercial Pilot courses each include their corresponding Quick-Review Guide as part of the course purchase. They do not include Written Test Prep. The same refund conditions apply to all three courses:

Request a full refund within 30 calendar days of purchase, with server-recorded course completion below 80%, no request for final instructor review or a knowledge-test endorsement, and no completion credential issued. Any guide included with the course is part of the same purchase.

Individual PDF guides, The Flight Review Guide and bundles containing only PDFs: Request a full refund within 7 calendar days of purchase. Opening or downloading the file does not affect eligibility.

Written Test Prep PAR, IRA and CAX: Request a full refund within 14 calendar days of purchase. No limits on questions answered, practice exams taken, or other usage.

Written Test Prep is sold separately per exam bank, with 24 months of access from confirmed payment, no subscription or automatic renewal, and no additional charges for practice, mock exams or repeats. It does not include a course, guide or official test fee.

The current price and inclusions for the exact product are shown on its product page and at checkout. See the complete refund policy for requests, processing and rights that cannot be waived.

Version 1.4 applies to purchases accepted under these terms from 2026-09-08. Existing acceptance records are kept unchanged.Archived Terms 1.3.

Content on this site, including any purchased file, is licensed to you personally and nontransferably for your own training use. Do not redistribute, resell, republish, sublicense, or share files or account access. Automated scraping, bulk downloading and mirroring are not permitted. Access that is shared or misused may be suspended or terminated.

JD ATLAS LLC retains all rights in its original text, graphics, page and product organisation, and the software that runs this site. Regulatory text and other government-source content remains subject to its own status. See the copyright and acceptable use page.

The site is provided as it is, without any warranty that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose. We may change, suspend or withdraw features and material. To the extent permitted by law, JD ATLAS LLC is not liable for any decision made in reliance on this material; you are responsible for verifying anything that affects a flight.

Questions about these terms go to fly@pilotmethodaviation.com or through the contact form. See also the privacy notice.