The problem with once-a-week lessons Most people learn to fly one or two lessons a week, squeezed around work and family. It works, but it's slow, and a lot of each lesson goes to re-learning what you forgot since the last one. Accelerated training flips that. You fly every day, learn every day, and build on yesterday while it's still fresh. At FastWings Academy, our Private Pilot program runs 14 days out of Van Nuys Airport (KVNY). Here's why training this way works so well,