A discovery flight is a real lesson: you preflight the aircraft, take the controls after takeoff, and log the time toward your certificate. No experience required, and nothing to buy first.
Most students start with a Private Pilot certificate and continue from there. Training is one-on-one, scheduled around your week.
The first certificate. Fly by yourself, carry passengers, go where you want in day or night VFR conditions.
Fly in cloud and low visibility on an IFR clearance. The rating that makes a light aircraft genuinely useful.
Get paid to fly. Tighter maneuvers, complex-aircraft time, and the hour building to reach the minimums.
Teach from the right seat and build hours while you do it. We hire from our own CFI graduates first.
One hour with an instructor. If you enroll, the time logs toward your 40.
An FAA third-class medical from an AME, plus a student pilot certificate through IACRA. We walk you through both.
Pattern work, then your first flight alone. Most students solo between 15 and 25 hours.
60 questions, 70% to pass. Ground school runs alongside your flying, not after it.
An oral exam and a flight with an FAA examiner. You go when your instructor and you agree you're ready.
Aircraft rates are wet — fuel and oil included. You're billed per flight, per lesson. No block purchase required and no membership fee.
At 55–65 hours, which is what most students actually need. We give you a written estimate before you enroll.
We work with third-party training lenders and can point you at scholarships through AOPA and EAA.
Preflight briefings and post-flight debriefs are part of the lesson, not extra ground time.
Our cross-country lessons are built around specific airports, each chosen for the judgment it demands. You fly the trip, brief the threats, and land somewhere worth landing.
Oceano County Airport: 2,325 feet of asphalt, fourteen feet above the Pacific, and a marine layer that decides when you land. You plan the fuel, brief the go-around, and walk to the beach afterward.
The skills transfer. Once you can read a coast, you can go almost anywhere on it.
One CFI owns your training from the first lesson to the checkride, so nobody re-teaches you what you already know.
Short bio: hours, background, what they like teaching.
Short bio: hours, background, what they like teaching.
Short bio: hours, background, what they like teaching.
"I walked in having never been in a small aircraft. Eleven months later I flew my family to the coast."
"Scheduling never fell apart. Same instructor, same aircraft, two lessons a week the whole way through."
"The debriefs are where I learned the most. Nothing was ever hand-waved past me."
Our office and briefing rooms are in the hangar on the [north/south] ramp. Parking is free, and you're welcome to walk in and look at the aircraft before you commit to anything.
No. You can fly with an instructor from day one. You'll need a third-class medical before your first solo, so we usually recommend starting that paperwork in your first month.
Two to three lessons a week finishes fastest and costs the least overall. Once a week works; less than that and you spend money re-learning.
Plan on two hours at the airport for about an hour of flight time — briefing, preflight, flying, then a debrief.
No charge. Your instructor will call you before you drive out, and we can usually convert the slot to ground instruction or a sim session.
Not for the discovery flight — we'll lend you a headset. Once you enroll, expect to spend a few hundred dollars on a headset, a kneeboard and your ground school materials.
You can start training at any age; you must be 16 to solo and 17 for the certificate. There's no upper limit as long as you can hold a medical.
$189 for one hour, instructor included. Bring one passenger if you'd like. Tell us when you're free and we'll confirm a slot within one business day.