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Ratings & Certificates

Private Pilot Certificate

Your first pilot certificate. You'll learn to fly a single-engine airplane, plan and execute cross-country flights, handle emergencies, and pass the FAA checkride. Most students finish in 3 to 6 months of consistent flying.

What this certificate lets you do

  • Fly single-engine airplanes as pilot-in-command
  • Carry passengers (not for hire)
  • Cross-country flights anywhere in the National Airspace System
  • Foundation for every advanced rating and certificate

What's Next

Add an Instrument Rating

Instrument Rating

Fly through weather. You'll learn instrument scan, precision and non-precision approaches, holds, and IFR procedures in the Cessna 172 and the Redbird simulator…

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Considering an aviation career?

Skip the piecemeal path.
Go Zero to Hero.

Every rating you'd take one at a time, packaged into one structured 12–18 month program.

Private → Instrument → Commercial → Multi-Engine → CFI/CFII/MEI. Financing available.

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Ready to start this program?

The fastest way in is a discovery flight — you'll fly the airplane you'll be training in.

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