Know your equipment
Train with your actual displays, navigators, autopilot, and backup instruments. Build a clear understanding of how the systems support the flight.
The face of the moon was in shadow
Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground. All their equipment and instruments are alive.Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port. The spectacle before us was indeed sublime.A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing.
YOUR AIRPLANE · YOUR INSTRUMENT RATING
Build proficiency
in your own cockpit.
The aircraft you know. The flying you plan to do.
Earn your instrument rating in the airplane you already know and intend to fly. Our 10-day own-aircraft program combines a focused structure with dedicated, one-on-one CFII instruction.
Train in Your Own Aircraft
A PERSONAL INVESTMENT IN YOUR FLYING
Learn it here.
Use it on your next flight.
Training in your own airplane lets you build procedures around the panel, controls, checklists, and performance you will use after the rating. The learning continues into your everyday flying.
Your instructor tailors ground lessons, flight exercises, and practical-test preparation to your starting point. We work together to build the instrument scan, avionics understanding, and judgment behind confident IFR flying.
10-day own-aircraft IFR
$7,950
A focused program of individual CFII instruction, ground work, flight training, and mock-checkride preparation in your aircraft.
We review aircraft equipment, records, location, insurance arrangements, and readiness before confirming scope and scheduling. Examiner and aircraft operating expenses are discussed separately.
Discuss Your AircraftTAILORED TO YOUR AIRPLANE
A familiar cockpit.
A stronger instrument pilot.
Develop repeatable habits
Practice configurations, checklists, power settings, and approach setup in the aircraft you intend to keep flying.
Plan beyond the rating
Connect procedures and weather decisions to the trips you expect to make, with proficiency as the goal.
BEFORE WE SCHEDULE
Let’s review the fit.
Tell us your aircraft type, avionics, training location, instrument experience, and preferred timing. We’ll review suitability and the preparation needed for an accelerated course.
- Private Pilot Certificate and a passed instrument written test
- 15 hours of simulated or actual instrument time
- 50 hours cross-country PIC time
- Aircraft airworthiness, IFR equipment, and records review
Checkrides are coordinated in advance with our DPEs, subject to readiness and operating conditions.
Want to use an academy aircraft?
Our Garmin-equipped Cessna 182S and V35B Bonanza offer two capable alternatives.
Explore Both AircraftLET’S MAKE A PLAN
Make your own aircraft an even more useful airplane.
Tell us what you fly, what equipment is installed, and when you hope to train.
Plan Your Instrument Training
