Straight answers before you book.

No. Most of our students start with zero experience, and there is no minimum age to begin lessons (you must be 16 to solo and 17 to be certificated). A Discovery Flight is the usual first step.

It is your first real lesson: a 30-minute ground session followed by 1 to 1½ hours in a Piper Cherokee with you at the controls and a Certified Flight Instructor beside you. The Deluxe Discovery Flight is $295 (a $145 Basic version with a 30-minute flight is also available), the time is loggable, and the amount is credited back to your account after your first 10 flight hours if you continue.

Yes. You fly a Piper Cherokee, a stable and forgiving trainer, with a Certified Flight Instructor on the dual controls the whole time, from an airport with an operating control tower. Our aircraft are maintained with complete logbooks, which is exactly what the local examiners check before every checkride.

Our published estimate for the Private Pilot package is about $9,400, paid as you go: 30 hours dual, 10 hours solo and 10 hours of ground at a $165 per hour block-time aircraft rate plus $70 per hour instruction. The FAA minimum is 40 hours and the national average is 65–70, so flying often is the biggest lever on the final cost.

Mostly as long as your schedule allows. The FAA minimum for Private Pilot is 40 hours and the national average is 65–70. Our flight operations run 5 AM to 10 PM seven days a week and Las Vegas weather cooperates almost all year, so if you have the time, we can move as fast as you can.

For a Private Pilot certificate, yes: a third-class FAA medical from an Aviation Medical Examiner before you solo. For a Sport Pilot certificate, a valid U.S. driver’s license serves as your medical, and you can fly our Cherokees as a Sport Pilot.

Piper Cherokee PA-28s: three Cherokee 180s and a 160-horsepower Cherokee 140, most with dual Garmin G5s and a Garmin GTN 650Xi or 355W GPS, all with ADS-B, and four of the five aircraft IFR certified. Multi-engine students fly our Piper Apache PA-23-150 twin.

Part 61. That means your training is built around you rather than a fixed syllabus and timetable: you can start any time, fly as often as your schedule allows, and we tailor the plan to your experience and goals.

Yes. We are approved with Flight Training Finance LLC, so you can apply through them for flight training financing; terms and approval are set by the lender. AOPA Finance is another third-party option for Part 61 students, and you can always pay as you go, lesson by lesson, instead.

Flight operations are at North Las Vegas Airport (KVGT), and our ground training center is at 2470 N. Decatur Blvd, Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV 89108, a few minutes from the field. We serve students from across the valley: Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin and Pahrump.

Yes, and we can take you all the way: Sport or Private, Instrument, Commercial single and multi-engine, then CFI and CFII, all under one roof. Many pilots build the hours airlines require by instructing, and we hire local CFIs.

Call or text 702-372-7552, or send us a message and we will call you back. The first step for almost everyone is the Discovery Flight: 30 minutes on the ground and 1 to 1½ hours in the air, with you flying the airplane.

They are Piper Cherokees and a Piper Apache, upgraded rather than new, with modern Garmin G5 glass instruments and GTN navigators in most of the fleet. Like every aircraft used for instruction they receive the FAA-required 100-hour and annual inspections, and our maintenance and logbooks are complete, which is exactly what local examiners check before a checkride.

Five: four Cherokee PA-28s and an Apache twin. Four airplanes of the same family is deliberate, so there is almost always a Cherokee available and students get more scheduling flexibility. You book through our online scheduling system.

You will always be in a Cherokee, and two of our 180s share an identical dual Garmin G5 and GTN 650Xi panel, so switching between them is seamless. Flying more than one airplane of the same type makes you a more adaptable pilot.

Mostly glass. Four of the five aircraft have dual Garmin G5 electronic flight instruments with a Garmin GTN 650Xi or 355W GPS, and all have ADS-B In and Out; one Cherokee 180 has not had the G5 upgrade. You will learn both.

A flight training loan through a lender like Flight Training Finance or AOPA Finance can typically be used for aircraft rental and instruction; whether it stretches to books, a headset, your medical exam and FAA test fees depends on the lender. Ask us and we will help you total up the real number.

No. Pay-as-you-go is our default: you pay for each lesson at our published rates, and the $9,400 Private Pilot estimate is simply what that adds up to at block-time pricing. Financing is optional, for students who prefer to fund the whole course at once.

For ground sessions, come to our training center at 2470 N. Decatur Blvd, Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV 89108. For flights, your instructor will tell you exactly where to park and meet at North Las Vegas Airport when you book, so you never have to find your way onto the ramp alone. Call or text 702-372-7552 if you have trouble finding us.

Yes, within reason. Friends and family are welcome to watch from the ground. Whether a passenger can ride along on a lesson depends on the aircraft, weight and the day’s plan, so ask when you book.

North Las Vegas Airport, identifier KVGT, a towered general aviation airport northwest of downtown Las Vegas and a few minutes from our Decatur Boulevard training center. It has an operating control tower, Class D airspace under the Las Vegas Class B, and a practice area close by.