Flight Academy In Los Angeles

A private pilot program at our Van Nuys academy is $10,900 for the Standard package with 40 hours logged, or $15,900 for the Comprehensive package with 60 hours logged and 10 hours of ground school. The instrument rating is $11,700, the multi-engine add-on is $5,100, and the full zero-to-airline program is $89,000. Anything flown beyond a package is billed at $179 an hour wet for enrolled students.

Judge it on four checks rather than the word on the sign: a lesson-by-lesson syllabus, a written overage rate, stage checks flown with someone other than your own instructor, and aircraft the school owns. We are a Part 61 academy at Van Nuys Airport with 11 full-time instructors and 5.0 stars from 100+ Google reviews. Ask every school you visit those four questions before you pay a deposit.

A private pilot certificate takes three to four months at a full-time pace of three or four lessons a week, and eight to twelve months at one lesson a week. FAR 61.109 sets a 40-hour minimum and the national average is 60 to 75 hours. The full zero-to-airline sequence takes about 18 to 24 months of training, then roughly two years of instructing to reach 1,500 hours.

No, and no flight school honestly can. Airline hiring is set by airline demand in a given year, and any guarantee you are shown is a conditional document with a list of ways it stops applying. What a school controls is the training: our $89,000 program takes you from zero to the commercial, multi-engine and instructor certificates that make you hireable.

They are the same thing. The FAA certifies schools under Part 61 or Part 141 and issues no credential called an academy, so the word carries no legal weight on its own. What matters is structure: a written syllabus, stage checks and a fixed package price such as our $15,900 Comprehensive program with 60 logged hours.

Yes. We finance through Stratus Financial from $2,500 down with monthly payments, and we also run in-house payment plans for students who prefer to pay stage by stage. A $15,900 Comprehensive private pilot program can start with $2,500 rather than the full amount.

Our zero-to-airline program is $89,000 and covers private, instrument, commercial, multi-engine and the CFI and CFII instructor certificates. That is the training cost only. You then build from roughly 250 hours to the 1,500 an ATP certificate requires, usually by instructing, which is paid work rather than an expense.

We are a Part 61 school at Van Nuys Airport. Part 61 lets us build the schedule around you rather than around a fixed federal course outline, which is why our Comprehensive program runs 60 logged hours instead of a rigid minimum. Both parts lead to identical FAA certificates.

There is no minimum age to begin training, and our structured program for ages 10 to 15 is $4,200. You must be 16 to fly solo and 17 to hold a private pilot certificate. Plenty of students start ground instruction well before either birthday.

Additional flight time is billed at $179 an hour wet in a single-engine aircraft for enrolled students, and we tell you that before you sign rather than after. It is the main reason we point most students at the $15,900 Comprehensive program with 60 logged hours instead of the $10,900 Standard with 40.

We are at 7900 Balboa Blvd, Suite 108A, Van Nuys, CA 91406, on Van Nuys Airport, open 9am to 9pm seven days a week. That is a short drive from Sherman Oaks, Burbank, Woodland Hills, Encino and Studio City, and about 30 minutes from the Westside. Call (818) 290-8249 to book a visit.

A discovery flight is $229 for 60 minutes, you fly the aircraft yourself from the left seat, and the time is loggable dual instruction toward your certificate. The full price is credited against any program if you enroll within 24 hours. It is the cheapest way to find out whether you like this before committing $10,900.