Hi Andrew, you lucky b"**"r ! I've never been on a plane.
O.k. - it will be next year at this time before your pup will be old enough to cope with a modern type puppy test. You will have to assess your pups degree of mental/physical sensitivity, it's willingness to retrieve and it's willingness to please then begin from there.
I begin with the recall first to voice and then to whistle - though it would be perfectly possible to use only the whistle right from the start. I give tiny little puppy retrieves using an old sock tied into a ball. No steadiness training at all is given for at least a couple of months and maybe a lot longer depending upon how keen the pup is at retrieving.
It is easily possible to bring a pup galloping to you and possibly bringing its retrieve with it by 12 weeks old in response to voice and/or whistle. Stay at that level until the pup does not believe that any other response is possible. Pups do very quickly get bored with an exercise so keep the training sessions very, very short. Half a minute is fine - 3 minutes is too long. I try to give 3 to 6 such tiny sessions in a day , always picking the pups most wakeful moments to do them.
In my situation these "training sessions" take place in my house or since I at last got a house with a tiny garden 8 years ago, in the garden.
All retrieves are at very short distances - absolute maximum about 15 feet. The idea is to encourage retrieving - not the finding of retrieves - that comes a lot later.
Do not train where and when you cannot remove the distractions . All that should be present to interest the pup at that stage is you and the "dummy." No wife, no children, no other dog that can be seen or heard if possible. Work in a narrow space if possible to encourage the pup to you rather than to swerve around you. Don't work wher the pup can pick the dummy up and bog off behind something to chew on it.
All of this training must be kept fun- fun - fun . Anticipate and correct where the pup will go wrong by avoiding that situation. I like to use an awful lot of praise both vocal and physical but others disagree with this - that's up to them and to you.
Enthusiasm comes before perfection. Don't bother the pup with sitting deliveries , not at that stage. Sometimes they work out O.K. but some pups don't like it at all , they begin to recall slowly or won't recall at all. A retrieve is just a recall with something in the dogs mouth - don't slow down the retrieve by insisting upon a sitting delivery. At that age I don't teach the sit at all for about 3 weeks to 3 months after I first got the pup . Heelwork is kept for 4 months old as a minimum . I like to leave that well alone for quite a while. It all depends on my day to day assessment and re-assessment of the puppy.
...............Or !!!! You can wait until the pup is 6 to 10 months old and then start.
Wullie
No premature entry to the shooting field will be required and i've also got the personal discipline to keep her away from all distractions. 
If nothing else, i want her to be as fast as her genes possibly allow her to be and to handle well too. No pressure then 
... all above plus..also as wullie says, remembering the retrieve is a recall following a pick up, praise the return, fussing under the chin, once the pup has almost forgotten it has the toy then take it, I like to use a word as I take it so that eventually I can say that word and the pup releases the toy 
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