The Flight Instructor Certificate (FI) prepares you for the role as a flight instructor. During the course 8-12 week program you will learn how to prepare briefings and conduct practical sessions for flight training. The Flight Instructor Certificate is a good way to gain experience after you have finished your commercial pilot training, and it gives you the opportunity to refine your pilot skills.

Studying on the Commercial Pilots Course at Keilir is an exciting way to gain certification to pilot passenger aircraft anywhere in the world. Keilir teach in accordance with the EASA Part-FCL requirements and have approved teaching status from the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration; furthermore, the course syllabus follows that given out by EASA in accordance with pan-European issuing directives for pilot licenses.

As a private pilot, you gain the privileges to fly on single engine airplanes, under visual conditions and with passengers, nonprofit, in all of the European countries. Private Pilot Licence holders have the option to attend Professional Pilot Courses also taught at Iceland Aviation Academy.

Keilir is currently hosting two students from Lund University School of Aviation in Sweden (Trafikflygarhögskolan). As a part of their studies, Anna Palmqvist and Viktor Varhelyi, chose to do their two week internship at Keilir Aviation Academy in Iceland, staying on campus and working alongside our professional pilot students and instructors.

Keilir Aviation Academy - Integrated Professional Pilot Program starts on Friday 17 August with an orientation day for new students.

Keilir Aviation Academy is the first Icelandic aviation school to opperate ATPL training abroad, with the first pilot students arriving at the KAA training site Barcelona earlier this summer. Pilot training now takes place both at Keilir main campus at Keflavik International Airport in Iceland and in Sabadell, just outside of Barcelona, Spain.

"The lack of women's representation in commercial aviation leads young girls to believe there something prohibiting them from being pilots. I want to change that!" Telma Rut Frímannsdóttir gave commencement speech on behalf of the class of professional pilot students on 8 June 2018.

Keilir Aviation Academy graduated 14 students from ATPL and Integrated Professional Pilot Program on 8 June at Andrews Theater in Reykjanesbær, bringing the number of graduates in 2018 to a total of 42 students.

A stone and stainless steel monument will be dedicated on May 3, 2018 honoring Americans who died in the crash of the B-24 Liberator called Hot Stuff in inclement weather near Grindavik, Iceland on May 3, 1943.

Keilir Aviation Academy are accepting applications for the role of an ATPL course administrator to start in May or June 2018.