FAQ

Every student is required to bring a current passport or original birth certificate and driver's license.

It depends on why the cancellation happened: If it’s for weather, maintenance, or a family emergency: there is no fee. 

If you failed to show up to your assigned lesson, we charge you $150 per hour for the length of your scheduled lesson.

It depends on what course you’re doing!  Our ATP and multi-engine commercial add-on applicants attend VERY robust academic sessions that cover about 30 hours over 4 days. ATP applicants also attend the ATP-CTP before taking the ATP written (ATM).

For Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Instructor courses there are 2 meanings to “Ground School.” The first is the ground school course that helps you pass the FAA written test. Each of the aforementioned ratings has an associated FAA written test. We will give you access to a study guide to help prepare you for the written test before you ever start flying. For the second definition, we take a different approach to ground school than most flight schools…. Most flight schools demand you attend academic lessons (which they bill you for at an exorbitant rate), then they tell you to go watch online Youtube videos…meh. We are going to teach you the same way military pilots are taught. After a basic group class, we will give you homework. You’ll also get homework after every lesson…this homework applies to the next lesson. At the beginning of the next lesson, we’ll give you a quiz to make sure that you did your homework, and to ensure you understood what you studied. Your study habits will determine how much “extra” ground academics you need. If you study, your course cost is cheaper than someone who doesn’t study. If you don’t study, we bill you by the hour to teach you what you could learn on your own.

Every lesson will have a ground lesson related to both the homework assignment and the flight itself.

This also depends on the course you’re doing.  For private pilots: show up with a positive mental attitude!

For instrument, initial commercial, and instructor courses, we’ll send you course-specific materials as soon as you sign up.

For ATP and multi-engine commercial add-on ratings, we have a proprietary online academic course that you must accomplish before you start. We will check your completion percentage before you start the course.

No. We do that intentionally so that you become a more-well rounded pilot. We will assign you an instructor that is responsible for your training, but we will intentionally have you fly with other instructors before your checkride.

If your goal is to be a professional pilot, you should get an FAA First Class medical before you start training. If you are looking to do this for recreational purposes, a Class III is all you need.  We have an AME in our building! 

It depends on the course you’re taking! And, it depends largely on your study habits. Our current prices are available with a quick consultation via phone or email. I guarantee, we’re cheaper than anybody else!

This seems to be the magic question! In all reality, it takes at least 9 months for the average person to go from mouth-breathing mortal to multiengine, instrument instructor. If anyone tells you otherwise, frankly they are lying to you. There are true stories of pilot trainees that have finished in less than that, but they are the exception to the general rule. The truth is: if you want to finish in a timely fashion, this has to be a fulltime job for at least 9 months. At the beginning of your training, you should expect to feel overwhelmed. That’s normal since flying is not something that comes naturally to most people. All of our courses start with on-line academics, an FAA written test, guided study, and daily flights. As you get further into the training, you will dedicate more time to self-study and flying. Every course ends with an FAA checkride for the rating sought.

The Airline Transport Pilot Certification Program (ATP- CTP) is the FAA prerequisite to the Airline Transport Pilot Written test (the FAA calls it the ATM). The ATP-CTP consists of 30 hours of ground academics prescribed by FAR Part 61, 4 hours in a flight training device (FTD), and at least 6 hours in a full flight simulator (FFS). The FTD and FFS must be FAA certified, simulate an airplane over 12,500 lbs max gross takeoff weight, have a very specific minimum motion and visual acuity certification, and be on the FAA’s list of approved devices. This requirement means that only BIG companies can do the simulator training, because of the cost of a certified simulator.

As long as the weather permits, everyday.