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Discovery flights · Van Nuys Airport, Los Angeles
Discovery Flight: What It Is, What Happens, What It Costs
A discovery flight is a real flying lesson sold one at a time. You sit in the left seat, your hands are on the controls for most of the hour, and a certificated flight instructor sits beside you as the legal pilot in command. It is loggable dual instruction, not a sightseeing ride. Ours start at $229.
$229 · 60 minutesYou fly the aircraftLoggable under 14 CFR 61.51No medical certificate needed
$229Discovery Flight For One, 60 minutes in the air
1.0hour of dual instruction, signed into your logbook
5.0★85 reviews on Google
355flyable days a year at Van Nuys, measured
The definition
A discovery flight is the first lesson of a pilot course, unbundled
Take the marketing off it and a discovery flight is one flight lesson, sold on its own, to someone who has not enrolled in anything. Same aircraft as a student on day forty. Same instructor. Same syllabus item. The only thing that separates your discovery flight from the second lesson of a full programme is that nobody has asked you to commit to a programme. If you are working out where the closest one is, you can book a discovery flight near you and see real drive times from your part of Los Angeles.
That single fact explains everything people find confusing about it. It explains why you fly rather than watch — a lesson in which the student never touches the controls would be a poor lesson. It explains why the time goes in a logbook. It explains why there is a briefing at a table before anyone walks to the ramp, and a debrief afterwards, and why the whole visit takes longer than the flight does.
The name is a soft one, chosen because “first flying lesson” frightens people who are not sure they want flying lessons. It undersells the thing. You are not discovering anything passively. You are flying an aeroplane over Los Angeles about ten minutes after you first sat in one. If the more formal name is the one you were searching for, our page on introductory flight lessons at Van Nuys sets the same hour out as lesson one of a private pilot syllabus.
Who is flying
You are the pilot flying. The instructor is the pilot in command.
Two different jobs, two different meanings, and the distinction is the whole legal basis of the flight. Nobody explains it, so here it is.
The aircraft has two sets of controls, wired to the same surfaces. You have the yoke or stick in front of you, the rudder pedals under your feet and the throttle by your right hand. Everything you move, moves the aeroplane. That makes you the pilot flying for as long as the instructor is happy for you to be.
The instructor is something else. Under 14 CFR 91.3(a) the pilot in command is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft. On a discovery flight that is the CFI, without qualification, from before the engine starts to after it stops. They hold the certificate that makes the flight legal, they accept the clearance from Van Nuys tower, they decide whether the weather is good enough, and they can take the aircraft back from you at any instant, from their seat, without asking and without explaining first.
People hear “you fly it” and assume a marketing dilution — that they will hold the controls for ninety seconds over the valley while the instructor does the real work. That is not what happens. Once you are clear of the airport you will hold heading and altitude, make turns, climb, descend and follow the instructor’s directions for as long as you are enjoying it. What you will not do on a first flight is take off unaided or land. The instructor will have their hands and feet with yours on the takeoff and will fly the landing while you follow through.
1
Pilot flying — you
You make the control inputs. On a normal 60-minute discovery flight most people have the aircraft for roughly 30 to 45 minutes of the hour, including a hands-on takeoff.
2
Pilot in command — the instructor
Legally responsible under 14 CFR 91.3(a), and the person the FAA holds accountable for the flight. Every one of our instructors holds a commercial or ATP certificate plus a CFI and a current medical.
3
What that means in the moment
If anything at all is not right — traffic, a gust on final, a radio call you did not catch — the instructor says “my aircraft” and takes it. That sentence is the safety architecture of every training flight ever flown.
Does it count
Yes, it counts toward a licence — and here is the rule that makes it count
One condition, and it is not negotiable: the flight has to be given by a certificated flight instructor who signs the logbook entry.
14 CFR 61.51 is the regulation on logbooks. Paragraph (h) covers logging instruction time: a person may log training time when that training is received from an authorised instructor, and the entry has to be certified in a logbook by that instructor. Do that, and the hour is dual instruction received. It counts against the 40 hours of flight time that 14 CFR 61.109(a) requires for a private pilot certificate, and against the 20 hours of that total which must be received from an authorised instructor.
The distinction people get wrong is between dual received and pilot-in-command time. You were manipulating the controls for most of the hour, but you are not yet rated in the category and class, so none of it is PIC time under 14 CFR 61.51(e). It is dual, and dual is what a student needs at this stage. Nobody has ever been slowed down by having an hour of dual in the book.
Bring a logbook if you own one. If you do not, we will start one for you at the debrief, fill in the first row with the date, aircraft type and registration, the route, and the hour, and your instructor will sign it with their certificate number. That page is the first page of a career for some people and a souvenir for others, and it is worth having either way.
There is a second way it counts, and this one is financial. If you enrol in any of our programmes within 24 hours of the flight, the full price of the discovery flight comes off the programme price. Not a percentage, not a credit note — the whole $229. At that point the hour cost you nothing and you are already an hour into the 40.
The hour
Where the time actually goes on a discovery flight
A 60-minute discovery flight is 60 minutes in the air. It is about two and a half hours at the airport. Here is the whole visit, with an honest answer to the only question that matters.
| What is happening | How long | Are you flying? |
|---|---|---|
| Arrive, sign in, weight and balance check | 10 minutes | No. Bring photo ID. We need your weight because it is an aircraft limit, not a comment. |
| Preflight briefing at the table | 20 to 30 minutes | No, and this is the part people remember. What the controls do, what the instruments say, what the plan is, what happens if anything is not right. |
| Walkaround inspection of the aircraft | 10 minutes | You do it, with the instructor talking you through every item on the checklist. |
| Start, taxi and run-up | 10 minutes | You steer on the ground with your feet. Almost everybody oversteers for the first hundred yards. |
| Takeoff | About 1 minute | Hands on, with the instructor’s hands there too. |
| The flight you booked | 60, 90 or 120 minutes | Roughly 30 to 45 minutes of a 60-minute flight is you flying it, unprompted, once you are clear of the airport traffic. |
| Return, approach and landing | About 10 minutes | The instructor lands. You keep your hands lightly on the controls and follow through, which is how landings are learned. |
| Shutdown, debrief and logbook entry | 20 minutes | No. This is where the flight turns into a lesson instead of a ride. |
Block out half a day and do not schedule anything tight afterwards. The single most common complaint about a first flight anywhere is that the visitor had to leave before the debrief, which is the half of it that teaches you something.
Before you come
What to bring, and four things people bring that they do not need
Short list. Nothing on it costs money.
Bring these five
Everything else is supplied, including the headset, the aircraft, the fuel and the logbook.
- Government photo IDRequired
- Non-polarised sunglassesRecommended
- Closed shoes and long trousersRecommended
- WaterRecommended
- Your honest weightBefore you book
Leave these at home
Not rules, just things that turn out to be no help at all in a small cockpit.
- Your own headsetWe supply one
- A large bagNo room
- Polarised sunglassesSee below
- A big meal in the hour beforeTrust us
Two things worth knowing
Polarised lenses. They can black out parts of a glass cockpit display depending on the angle you hold your head, and they can hide the glint of other traffic through a windscreen. Ordinary tinted sunglasses are better in an aeroplane, which is why almost every professional pilot wears them.
Motion sickness tablets. If you are thinking about one, tell your instructor which one before you take it. Several of the common ones cause drowsiness, and a drowsy student learns nothing and enjoys it less. There are better answers, starting with a morning flight, cool air on your face and looking at the horizon rather than at your knees.
Weather
What a weather cancellation means, and how rarely it happens here
We measured it rather than guessed. Twelve months of NOAA ASOS observations at Van Nuys, judged against a 3,000-foot ceiling and 5 statute miles of visibility.
355 days a year at Van Nuys meet that standard. Three hundred and sixty-three met basic VFR minimums of 1,000 feet and 3 statute miles. That is the highest figure of the fifteen US training airports we measured, and it is the single best argument for learning to fly in Los Angeles rather than anywhere with a winter.
The ten days that do not work are almost all mornings, and almost all in late spring. The marine layer pushes inland overnight, sits over the valley as a low cloud deck, and burns off. In June only 40% of 7am observations at Van Nuys met training minima. By 11am that is 93%, and from 1pm it runs at 97 to 100%. Book a June morning and you are gambling. Book a June afternoon and you are not.
If the ceiling is against us we call you before you leave the house, not after you have driven in, and we move you to another slot at no cost. Nothing is forfeited and nothing expires early. The other option is the one nobody expects: move into the Redbird MCX simulator for the day and fly the same profile with the ground underneath you. It is a full-motion, FAA-approved machine, it is never cancelled for weather, and at $189 it is the cheapest hour of instruction we sell.
The full method, the raw tables and the comparison against fourteen other airports are published at our flyable days study. We would rather you checked our working than took the number on trust.
The money
What $229 buys, and what happens to it if you carry on
The price covers the aircraft and its fuel, the instructor’s time on the ground and in the air, the headset, the walkaround, the briefing, the debrief and the logbook entry. There is no landing fee at Van Nuys for a light aircraft, no fuel surcharge and no per-person charge for the passenger seat if you bring someone to sit in the back. What you were quoted is what you pay.
Enrol in any of our programmes within 24 hours of the flight and the whole $229 comes off the programme price. That is the part that makes the arithmetic strange in your favour: the flight is effectively free if you continue, and the hour is already logged.
For the sake of honesty about what comes later — if you go on to a certificate, three things sit outside any flight school’s package price anywhere in the country, because the school does not receive the money. A medical certificate is issued by an FAA-designated aviation medical examiner. The knowledge test is administered by an FAA-approved testing centre. The practical test is conducted by a designated pilot examiner. None of those three is us, and no school can bundle them. Our own numbers, including what enrolled students pay per hour, are published on the pilot training cost page.
And the thing nobody tells you before a first flight: the discovery flight is also a test of us. You get an hour to watch how an instructor teaches, how the aircraft is maintained and whether anyone at the desk knows your name. Use it that way. Fly with two schools before you enrol with either.
Eligibility
Who can take one, in four short answers
The barriers people invent for themselves are almost never real ones.
1
You do not need a medical certificate
Not for a discovery flight. You are receiving instruction, not acting as pilot in command. A medical under 14 CFR 61.23 is required before you fly solo, and there is no reason to think about that today.
2
There is no minimum age for dual instruction
None. The FAA sets 16 as the minimum age to fly solo in an aeroplane and 17 to hold a private pilot certificate under 14 CFR 61.103, but a child of eight can be taught in the left seat if they can see out and reach the pedals with the seat forward.
3
You do not need any experience
Everyone who has ever flown an aeroplane has done a first hour with no idea what any of it meant. The briefing exists precisely because you have not done this before.
4
Weight is an aircraft limit, not a judgement
Every aeroplane has a maximum takeoff weight and a centre of gravity envelope, and both are legal limits. Tell us your weight when you book and we will put you in an aircraft that carries it, or tell you honestly if we cannot.
Not a tour
A discovery flight and a scenic air tour are different products
They look similar from the outside and they are regulated differently, priced differently and sold to different people.
| Discovery flight | Scenic air tour | |
|---|---|---|
| Who flies the aircraft | You, for most of the hour | The commercial pilot. You are a passenger. |
| Where you sit | Left seat, at the controls | Wherever the seating plan puts you |
| Goes in a logbook | Yes, signed by the instructor under 14 CFR 61.51 | No |
| Counts toward a certificate | Yes, as dual instruction received | No |
| Route | Chosen for what it teaches, then for the view | Fixed sightseeing route |
| Briefing and debrief | Included, and it is half the value | A safety briefing only |
If what you want is the view over Malibu with somebody else doing the work, an air tour is the better purchase and we will say so. If you want to find out if you can fly, only one of these two answers the question. More on the tour side of that comparison is on airplane tours over Los Angeles.
The route
What you actually see from a training aircraft over Los Angeles
Van Nuys sits under the shelf of the Los Angeles Class B airspace in the San Fernando Valley, which sounds like a constraint and is really a gift. Everything worth looking at is inside twenty minutes. The Santa Monica Mountains are off the left wing about four minutes after takeoff. The coast at Malibu is a little further. Downtown, the Hollywood sign, the Getty, the Rose Bowl and the reservoirs above Burbank all sit within a short flight of the field.
Where you go is your instructor’s call on the day, and it is made on traffic and on wind rather than on scenery. A first lesson works best in air that is not being thrown around, which in summer means earlier is better and which is why the coastal routes are often the calm ones. Ask for something specific when you book and we will do our best. If you want to fly over your own house, bring the address.
Late afternoon in winter is the flight to book if you are choosing purely on how it looks. The light comes across the valley at a low angle, the air is usually smooth by then, and the whole basin is visible from the mountains to the water.
The fleet
The aircraft you will actually fly
Not a broker’s rental and not a tired airframe borrowed for the afternoon. Every aircraft on this ramp is ours, inspected on our schedule and flown by our instructors every day. Under 14 CFR 91.409(b) an aircraft used for instruction for hire gets a 100-hour inspection on top of its annual, which is a meaningfully higher standard than a privately owned aeroplane has to meet.
Discovery flights for one and for two are flown in the single-engine Cessna, Piper and Diamond aircraft. The Luxury discovery flight for two is flown in the Cirrus SR22 Turbo, which has a full glass cockpit and a whole-airframe CAPS parachute.
Redbird MCX
If the weather goes against you, the simulator does not
A Redbird MCX. Full motion, fully enclosed, FAA-approved, and it moves on all axes. Not a game.
A $189 Redbird session is the cheapest hour of instruction we sell and the one most people book when a June morning goes grey. Radio work, instrument scan, procedures and emergencies all transfer straight into the aircraft, and the machine can be paused, which an aeroplane cannot.
Your instructor
Career instructors, not hour-builders passing through
Every instructor here holds a commercial or ATP certificate, a flight instructor certificate and a current medical, and every one of them is the legal pilot in command on your flight. There are eleven of them, which is the reason a lesson booked for Tuesday happens on Tuesday.
We match you to one, and if the fit is wrong you change — no conversation required, no awkwardness, just tell the desk. Teaching styles differ more than people expect. The instructor who is perfect for a nervous 55-year-old is often the wrong one for a 19-year-old who wants an airline job, and pretending otherwise wastes everybody’s money.
The thing to watch for on your discovery flight is the debrief. An instructor who can tell you exactly what your hands did in the third turn and why the aircraft responded the way it did is teaching. One who says it went great is not.
What people say
5.0 Stars, 85 Reviews
Every one of them on Google. We do not blend in a second source to make the number bigger, and we do not round it up.
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The briefing, not the view
The line that repeats through our Google reviews is about the twenty minutes at the table before the engine starts. People remember being told what was about to happen before it happened.
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Lessons that actually happen
Eleven instructors and a fleet we own. Reviewers mention scheduling more often than they mention the aircraft, which tells you what most people find hard about learning to fly.
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The number does not move
You book at $229 and that is what it costs. Nobody writes a five-star review about a surprise invoice, and the absence of one comes up constantly.
All 85 of those reviews are on Google. We do not aggregate a rating from anywhere else and we do not publish a figure we cannot point at.
Book it
Every discovery flight we sell, with the price on it
Every option below books directly on this page — pick a date, pick a time, pay, done. If you would rather talk to a person before you spend anything, the free consultation button on every card does that instead.
Most booked
Discovery Flight For One
$229 / 60 min
The one almost everybody books. Sixty minutes in the air, roughly 30 to 45 of them with you flying, logged as dual instruction and credited in full against any programme if you enrol within 24 hours.
Discovery Flight For One — 90 min
$299 / 90 min
Thirty more minutes, which in practice buys you the coast. Enough time to leave the valley properly, do some real airwork out over the water and come back without hurrying.
Discovery Flight For One — 120 min
$399 / 120 min
Two hours. This is a cross-country in miniature — leave the local area, land somewhere else, and come home. The best value per minute of the three, and the most tiring.
For two people
Discovery Flight For Two
$299 / 60 min
Bring the person who talked you into it, or the one who needs convincing. One of you flies from the left seat, the other sits behind with a headset and hears every word.
Discovery Flight For Two — 90 min
$399 / 90 min
Long enough that the two of you can swap seats at the halfway point if you both want to fly, which is the reason most people choose it over the hour.
Discovery Flight For Two — 120 min
$499 / 120 min
Two hours for two people. Swap seats, fly out to the coast or to another airport, and still have time on the ground at both ends.
In the Cirrus SR22 Turbo
Luxury Discovery Flight For Two
$399 / 60 min
The Cirrus SR22 Turbo. Full glass cockpit, leather, air conditioning and a whole-airframe CAPS parachute that brings the entire aeroplane down under canopy. The aircraft nervous first-timers ask about by name.
Luxury Discovery Flight For Two — 90 min
$549 / 90 min
Ninety minutes in the Cirrus. The extra half hour is what turns a look at the city into a proper flight down the coast and back.
Luxury Discovery Flight For Two — 120 min
$699 / 120 min
Two hours in the SR22 Turbo. The most aircraft, the most time, and the flight people book for a birthday or a proposal rather than for research.
On the ground, and further afield
Redbird MCX Simulator Session
$189 / session
Full-motion, fully enclosed, FAA-approved, on the ground, and never cancelled for weather. The sensible first move if you would rather test the work against your own nerve before spending money on aircraft time.
Los Angeles to Camarillo, lunch for two
$699 / flat
A real cross-country with a destination. Fly out over the Santa Susana Pass to Camarillo, eat at the field, fly home. Two people, two legs, and the closest thing to what having a licence is actually for.
Free In-Person Consultation
$0 / 30 min
Sit down with an instructor at Van Nuys and ask everything, including the questions you think sound stupid. Nothing is booked at the end of it unless you want it booked.
Every discovery flight is credited in full against any of our programmes if you enrol within 24 hours. Private pilot programmes are $10,900 for 40 logged hours, $15,900 for 60, and $22,500 in the Cirrus SR22 Turbo; Sport Pilot is $8,400 and the Instrument Rating $11,700. Financing starts at $2,500 down through Stratus Financial or our in-house plans. Enrolled students fly single-engine aircraft at $179 an hour wet inside their package. Aircraft are available to qualified pilots who have checked out with us — call for availability.
Back to School: $500 off any private pilot program through 30 September 2026. Standard $10,400 · Comprehensive $15,400 · Premium $22,000. Ask when you enroll.
Next step
Pick a date. The rest of it we will explain at the table.
A discovery flight answers a question that no amount of reading answers, and it answers it in about ninety minutes. If you are not ready to book, the free consultation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Would rather write it down? Use the contact form, or read how far Van Nuys is from where you are before you pick a time.
Discovery Flight For One
$229
60 minutes · you fly the aircraft · logged as dual instruction under 14 CFR 61.51 · credited in full against any programme if you enrol within 24 hours
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FAQ
Discovery Flight Questions, Answered Straight
A discovery flight is a real flying lesson sold on its own to someone who has not enrolled in a course. You sit in the left seat with your hands on the controls, a certificated flight instructor sits beside you as the legal pilot in command, and the time is logged as dual instruction. Ours start at $229 for 60 minutes in the air from Van Nuys Airport.
Yes. On a typical 60-minute discovery flight you have the controls for roughly 30 to 45 minutes, including a hands-on takeoff with the instructor. You will hold heading and altitude, turn, climb and descend. The instructor flies the landing while you follow through on the controls.
The flight instructor, always. Under 14 CFR 91.3(a) the pilot in command is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of the aircraft. You are the pilot flying — the person moving the controls — but the CFI holds the legal responsibility and can take the aircraft at any moment.
Yes, provided a certificated flight instructor gives the flight and signs your logbook. 14 CFR 61.51(h) allows training time to be logged when received from an authorised instructor, and that hour counts against the 40 hours of flight time 14 CFR 61.109(a) requires for a private pilot certificate. It is logged as dual instruction received, not as pilot-in-command time.
Ours is $229 for one person for 60 minutes in the air, $299 for 90 minutes and $399 for 120 minutes. For two people it is $299, $399 and $499. In the Cirrus SR22 Turbo for two it is $399, $549 and $699. The full price is credited against any of our programmes if you enrol within 24 hours.
About two and a half hours for a 60-minute flight. Roughly 10 minutes to sign in, 20 to 30 minutes of briefing at the table, 10 minutes walking around the aircraft, 10 minutes to start and taxi, the hour in the air, then about 20 minutes of debrief and the logbook entry. Do not schedule anything tight afterwards.
Neither. You are receiving flight instruction, not acting as pilot in command, so no certificate of any kind is required. A medical certificate under 14 CFR 61.23 becomes necessary later, before you fly solo. Bring government photo ID and that is the whole list.
There is no minimum age for dual instruction. A child who can see over the panel and reach the rudder pedals with the seat forward can fly the aircraft. The FAA sets 16 as the minimum age to fly solo in an aeroplane and 17 to hold a private pilot certificate under 14 CFR 61.103, and neither is relevant to a first flight.
No. On an air tour a commercial pilot flies and you are a passenger; nothing is logged and nothing counts toward a certificate. On a discovery flight you fly the aircraft, the route is chosen for what it teaches, and the hour goes into a logbook signed by your instructor.
Closed shoes, long trousers, non-polarised sunglasses, water and government photo ID. Polarised lenses can black out parts of a glass cockpit display and hide the glint of other traffic, so ordinary tinted sunglasses are better. Headsets, logbooks and the aircraft are supplied.
We call you before you leave home and move you to another slot at no cost. It does not happen often: 355 days a year at Van Nuys meet a 3,000-foot ceiling and 5 statute miles of visibility, and the days that fail are mostly June mornings under the marine layer. The alternative is a $189 Redbird full-motion simulator session, which no weather cancels.
It is the cheapest way to answer a question that costs $10,900 to answer any other way. An hour at the controls settles the question faster than any amount of research, and if you enrol within 24 hours the $229 comes off the programme price, so the hour effectively costs nothing.
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Eighty-Five Reviews. 5.0 Stars.
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SAFETY FIRST
DISCOVERY FLIGHT
★★★★★
I recently had the chance to take my first-ever discovery flight, and it was nothing short of amazing! From the moment I stepped into the cockpit, the...
SUNSET CIRRUS
★★★★★
It was a great flight! I did a sunset flight and Alex let us fly an awesome. Website was easy to book, and the plane itself was really fun to fly...
FLYING LESSON
★★★★★
We had a great flying lesson with Ralph and came away with a much better understanding of both the aircraft and the principles of flight. Ralph is a...
KIDS LUXURY FLIGHT
★★★★★
I got 2 luxury discovery flights for my kids. I wanted them to have the experience of flying. Our instructor Alex was amazing he made sure they feel...
HONEYMOON SURPRISE
★★★★★
Last minute booking to surprise my wife on our honeymoon. She had no experience with flying and was scared of flying, but Alex was very easygoing and knew...
FULL-MOTION SIM
★★★★★
Amazing flight school in van nuys airport. I have been a student here for the past few months and i could not be happier. I started doing a lot of...
DISCOVERY FOR TWO
★★★★★
I booked a Discovery Flight for Two for my girlfriend's birthday and it was the perfect gift for her. She couldn't have been more excited to get to...
SIMULATORS
★★★★★
Very professional and great airplanes. I love the flight simulators. The pricing is very fair compared to any other flight school
TEEN FIRST LESSON
★★★★★
We gifted our teenage son his first flying lesson. He was so excited! Alex greeted us and gave a reassuring brief that made us all feel comfortable and at...
FIRST-TIME FLYER
★★★★★
Flying is my husband's hobby and I was incredibly anxious and apprehensive about the discovery flight. However, I felt completely safe and at ease once we...
SAFETY FIRST
★★★★★
Very safety and detail oriented. Pre-flight briefing explained everything there was. To my knowledge, this flight school is exceptional in their ability.
DISCOVERY FLIGHT
★★★★★
I recently had the chance to take my first-ever discovery flight, and it was nothing short of amazing! From the moment I stepped into the cockpit, the...
SUNSET CIRRUS
★★★★★
It was a great flight! I did a sunset flight and Alex let us fly an awesome. Website was easy to book, and the plane itself was really fun to fly...
FLYING LESSON
★★★★★
We had a great flying lesson with Ralph and came away with a much better understanding of both the aircraft and the principles of flight. Ralph is a...
KIDS LUXURY FLIGHT
★★★★★
I got 2 luxury discovery flights for my kids. I wanted them to have the experience of flying. Our instructor Alex was amazing he made sure they feel...
HONEYMOON SURPRISE
★★★★★
Last minute booking to surprise my wife on our honeymoon. She had no experience with flying and was scared of flying, but Alex was very easygoing and knew...
FULL-MOTION SIM
★★★★★
Amazing flight school in van nuys airport. I have been a student here for the past few months and i could not be happier. I started doing a lot of...
DISCOVERY FOR TWO
★★★★★
I booked a Discovery Flight for Two for my girlfriend's birthday and it was the perfect gift for her. She couldn't have been more excited to get to...
SIMULATORS
★★★★★
Very professional and great airplanes. I love the flight simulators. The pricing is very fair compared to any other flight school
TEEN FIRST LESSON
★★★★★
We gifted our teenage son his first flying lesson. He was so excited! Alex greeted us and gave a reassuring brief that made us all feel comfortable and at...
FIRST-TIME FLYER
★★★★★
Flying is my husband's hobby and I was incredibly anxious and apprehensive about the discovery flight. However, I felt completely safe and at ease once we...
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