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What are your New Year's resolutions? For many of us, they run along the lines of "lose weight," "start exercising," and other well-intentioned plans to improve our lives. As pilots, we may find ourselves making well-intentioned resolutions of an aviation nature. "I resolve to fly X hours per month," or "I'm going to finish my certificate in April," or "I think I'll get started on the instrument rating." Or perhaps, "This is the year I'm going to start learning to fly."

We can help you reach your goals. If this is the year you are going to start flying, begin planning your journey with AOPA Flight Training Online. Read a synopsis of the FAA requirements for a private, recreational, or sport pilot certificate. Use our databases to find a flight school at your local airport, or a flight instructor. Use the TurboMedical interactive online form to help you prep for the medical examination that is needed to obtain most student pilot certificates. AOPA Flight Training Online is conveniently organized into the basic stages of flight training--presolo, solo, maneuvers, cross-country, and flight-test prep--to present information, resources, and tools that complement every phase of training.

For the private pilot who wants to add a new certificate or rating, AOPA Online offers practical test standards and sample FAA knowledge test questions for virtually every certificate and rating. Plus, you can search for pertinent archives from the archives of AOPA Pilot and AOPA Flight Training.

If your goals extend to becoming a safer, more proficient pilot, visit the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's Web site for a large selection of online interactive courses, safety quizzes, and numerous other resources on night flight, collision avoidance, flying in windy conditions, communicating with air traffic control, and operating at towered and nontowered airports, to name a few. There's something for pilots at every stage of their training.