Why choose our services?

When you choose our services, you get the same high-quality flight training at a much lower cost. We are independent instructors with no flight school, and that means that you’re not paying for a school’s marketing, administrative overhead, or cancellation penalties. Your least expensive, mom and pop flight school will run somewhere around $270 per hour as a base. Larger flight schools charge hundreds more per hour, but for the sake of this examination, we will compare our prices to the least expensive flight school.

Here’s the breakdown:

The least expensive flight school in South Florida Costs:

    •    Dual Instruction: $280/hr (often older planes in only fair condition)

    •    Ground instruction: $80/hr

    •    Plus overhead, cancellation charges, pre/post-brief fees, etc.

With our Services:

    •    Dual instruction: $240/hr with our nicest plane

    •    Ground instruction: $30/hr

Your Savings:

You save $40 per hour minimum, plus you avoid hidden fees. Over the course of a private pilot certificate (often 60–75 flight hours + ground instruction), this can easily add up to $4,000-$6,000 of savings.

Many flight schools will have a full roster of instructors.  You may be switched from instructor to instructor depending on the needs of the flight school. This can be difficult since you would have to get used to different teaching styles for every instructor. At our last flight school, every student was assigned a new instructor after completing their rating, or at random. The best students were assigned to the newest instructors as a way of balancing out the partnership; however, this logic would demand that your reward for performing well as a student is to get the instructor with the least amount of experience. When you choose my services, you will have one instructor from start to finish. We will be the ones who monitor your progress and keep track of your hours and endorsements.

Airline hiring requires a pilot to have 1,500 hours of total flight time. Most pilots graduate from flight school with around 250 hours. So they need to bridge a significant gap in flight time. The most common way to do this is by instructing at a flight school, and they usually get hired back as an instructor at the school where they did their training. As an instructor, you can legally log any time spent in the plane with a student as pilot in command time in your logbook. For this reason, many pilots who have zero interest in training other pilots become instructors for the sake of putting free hours in the logbook. This creates an incentive among instructors to schedule aggressively and, in some cases, fly many more hours than their students need, costing them hundreds if not thousands of dollars more than what is required.  If you do your flight training with us, you will not have this issue. I do not merely ride along in the plane to put hours in my own logbook. Our students get five-star training. They are successful because we leave no stone unturned in the process of teaching. Our students are held to standards in the cockpit and sent home encouraged, with a plan for success.

To qualify for your written test, practical test, or solo flights, you must earn an endorsement from an instructor stating that you are ready. These endorsements are the backbone of your training. Unfortunately, some flight schools misuse them, delaying endorsements to make students pay for unnecessary hours, or rushing them just to meet a “time guarantee.” Both approaches put the student at risk. With us, it’s simple: you get endorsed when you are ready, no sooner, no later. We don’t promise unrealistic timelines, and don’t increase your training to increase our own profits. Our responsibility is to make sure you’re truly prepared and confident before moving forward, and we stand by that.

Many flight schools advertise training in “all-in-one” packages, like a Private Pilot Package. On the surface, this might sound convenient, but here’s the catch: you’re paying a large sum up front for a fixed number of training hours. What does that mean for you?  If you excel and progress quickly, you may still be required to fly all the allocated hours before they’ll sign you off, wasting both your time and money. If you need more time to master the material, those hours may run out, leaving you pressured to take a test before you’re truly ready, or forced to pay extra for every additional hour. We have seen both situations firsthand, and neither serves the student. These kinds of setups are designed to benefit the school, not the pilot. That’s why our approach is different. With us, there are no dishonest guarantees, no inflated promises, and no one-size-fits-all training packages. Every student learns at their own pace, and we tailor instruction to fit your needs. You’ll always know exactly what you’re paying for, and you’ll never be pushed into a checkride before you’re ready.

Most flight schools operate fleets that are technically airworthy but outdated, with steam gauges, decades-old engines, and minimal technology. These airplanes meet the legal requirements, but that doesn’t always make them the easiest or safest to fly. Throughout our careers, we've flown everything from 1973 Piper Seminoles with steam gauges to brand-new Cessna 172s with full glass cockpits. The difference is night and day. Modern aircraft bring peace of mind: newer engines run more reliably, advanced avionics simplify flying, and features like integrated traffic and weather displays give you a much clearer picture of your surroundings. In a busy airspace like Fort Lauderdale, having that traffic page isn’t just a luxury; it can literally be a lifesaver. That’s why with us, you’ll train in high-tech planes that prepare you for the future of aviation, not the past.