Two-Hour Beginner Flying Lesson
Two-Hour Beginner Flying Lesson
Two hours at Van Nuys Airport, and about seventy minutes of it with your hands on the controls. Before that you sit down with your instructor for half an hour and learn what the yoke, the rudder pedals and the throttle do, so the flying makes sense when it starts. The lesson is logged, and the time counts toward a private pilot certificate.
You fly a Cessna 162 Skycatcher or a Piper Warrior PA-28-161, depending on what is on the ramp that morning. The Skycatcher is a hundred-horsepower two-seater with a Garmin G300 glass panel. The Warrior is a four-seat low wing with a hundred and sixty. Both are what our students fly on day one.
The Two Hours
| Minutes | What Happens |
|---|---|
| 30 | Ground lesson: the controls, the instruments and the plan |
| 10 | Preflight walk-around with the checklist |
| About 70 | Flying, over Simi Valley and the Santa Susana Mountains |
| 10 | Debrief and your signed logbook entry |
What $349 Covers
The airplane, the fuel, your instructor for the full two hours, the ground lesson and the debrief. Nothing is added at the desk. Enroll in a course within 24 hours of landing and the whole $349 comes off the package.
One Quick Check Before You Book
On this lesson the limit is 180 lb for the person flying, in either airplane. It is a weight and balance calculation, not a judgment. Close to it, or not sure? Call (818) 330-1318 before you book.
Lessons run 9 AM to 5 PM, seven days. Free rescheduling up to 24 hours before, and if the weather says no, you do not pay. The detail is on our weather and cancellation policy page.
The Other Four Lessons
- Two-Hour Beginner Flying Lesson For Two: Piper Warrior with a guest in the back, $449.
- Two-Hour Beginner Flying Lesson In The Diamond DA20: stick and bubble canopy, $549.
- Two-Hour Beginner Flying Lesson In The Cirrus SR22 Turbo: N422SN, $749.
- Two-Hour Beginner Simulator Lesson: Redbird MCX, $249.
All five, side by side, are on beginner flying lessons at Van Nuys.
