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Best in Flight Adventures

 

·         Super IPC

·         Private Pilot Adventure

·         Instrument Adventure

·         Professional Pilot Adventure

 

The hundred dollar hamburger is a great reason to fly … but not enough for everyone.  You want to really use the airplane, visit the islands, see the grandchildren, or see Alaska the way it should really be seen, from the air.

 

You need to be current and proficient.  You are an above average student and thrive on compressed training.  And you don’t want to hang around a flight school based in a trailer.

 

Industry experts agree that traditional maneuver-based training methods emphasizing motor skills are no longer enough to make a good pilot.  Today’s airplanes allow pilots to fly far from home, in differing weather conditions, over different terrain.  Autopilots and glass panels require a different kind of training from that available at the local airport.  What is needed is scenario-based training that emphasizes decision-making.  The new FAA practical test standards reflect that.  What’s the best scenario to train in?  Answer: the real thing (unless it’s an emergency).  If you bought an airplane to fly long distances, what sense is it to do all your training within fifty miles of home?

 

If you want to learn a language, the best way is immersion training.  Go where you use the language every day.  That’s what Best in Flight does – immerse you in aviation till you’ve achieved your goals.  Immersion training means you don’t have to review last week’s lesson.  What we learned yesterday we put into practice today.  By tomorrow, it will be a permanent part of your pilot toolkit.

 

Best in Flight developed its adventure programs to deliver the best quality instruction to motivated students.  You get the very best of instruction while enjoying the trip of a lifetime.  You finish as the best pilot you can be, safely, in a short timeframe – and with stories that will be the envy of all of your pilot friends.  Best in Flight offers various programs to train and retain currency.

 

Super IPC

 

Are you as good today as the day you took your instrument check ride?  Best in Flight offers a three day compressed flying adventure to get your mojo back.  We’re going to fly a thousand or fifteen hundred miles in three days.  We can go to Maine or Arkansas.  We’re going to fly in the IFR system, filing every time, flying under the hood in VFR conditions, or in actual IMC.  If you really need the time, we’ll schedule two hours a day for you to take care of your business.  It’s all aviation for three days.  Cell phones off.  All we do is aviate or learn about aviation when we are on the ground.  If you want to camp, fine – or we’ll stay in a bed and breakfast.  No Ramada Inns on this trip.

 

When you return, you’ll have a current Biennial Flight Review and Instrument Proficiency Check.  Depending on your needs, you’ll have a Complex Endorsement or High Performance Endorsement.  And you will have the confidence of knowing you are a better pilot than the day you got your Instrument ticket.

 

Private Pilot Adventure

 

You know you want to fly.  You want the best possible training in real world flying conditions.  You are frustrated by having to drive to the airport for one-and-a-half hour lessons with twenty-three year old flight instructors.  Perhaps you are considering an aircraft purchase.  You expect top rate service from your other vendors; you have every right to expect the same from your flight department.  Best in Flight offers an intensive three week program to go from first flight to Private Pilot certificate.  

 

Best in Flight will design your Private Pilot Adventure for you alone.  Do you want to fly your Cirrus with a G-1000 cockpit?  Fine.  Would you like to fly a classic 1948 Stinson, landing on grass fields?  We can do that; you’ll get your Private Pilot certificate with a tail wheel endorsement.  Do you want to fly an airplane with retractable landing gear?  We’ll fly a Cessna 172RG Cutlass. 

 

This program is total immersion in aviation.  You better bring a voice recorder and a good camera.  You will have memories, but you will want to share them with your hangar-flying buddies.  If you really cannot leave the workday world behind, we’ll schedule two hours a day for you to take care of your business.  After that, it’s cell phones off.  All we’ll do is aviate or learn about aviation when we are on the ground.

 

You will learn max-performance takeoffs at Leadville, Colorado, the highest elevation public airport in the continental U.S..  You’ll learn to operate in high density airspace.  We’ll go to Memphis, get a clearance into the Class B airspace, fly among the FedEx freighters, and land on Runway 36 Center.  We’ll see what it is like to fly in three-mile visibility.  That will give you the confidence to do it if you have to.  It will probably motivate you to earn your instrument rating.

 

We start the Private Pilot adventure with a few flights in the weeks before the big trip.  You will be introduced to the aircraft and learn to take off and land.  We will prep you for your FAA written test.  Insofar as the adventure means that you will be spending three weeks cheek-by-jowl with your instructor, it is an opportunity to make sure that we’ve put the right personalities together.  We can change our personnel around together.  To start the adventure, you will need an FAA Third Class medical and your written test done.

 

Instrument Adventure

 

You are good VFR pilot.  Now it’s time to fly in the clouds and get some utility from that airplane.  Perhaps you just want to duck though a thin cloud layer (legally).  Or you want the skills required to fly the nighttime freight runs—hard IFR to minimums.  No matter, the instrument rating will make you a safer and more precise pilot. 

 

We’re going to fly a two week odyssey.  Your choicewe can fly to California to visit your grandchildren.  We can meet your boyfriend in Mexico.  Two weeks isn’t long enough to go to Alaska.  We can visit your folks in Florida and then fly up the Rockies.

 

You will learn basic attitude flying.  You will fly the airplane as confidently and smoothly in the clouds as in visual conditions.  You will know your aircraft better than ever before.  You will learn all of the standard instrument procedures—precision and non-precision approaches.  You will learn GPS and Technically Advanced Aircraft procedures specific to your needs.  You will be able to cope with in-flight emergencies, including instrument and radio failures.  You will be confident.  When you finish, you will not only have the skills necessary to be a safe pilot, but the judgment to know how and when to exercise those superior skills.

 

The prerequisites for the Instrument Adventure are a Private Pilot certificate and medical.  You needn’t be current.  You will need fifty hours solo PIC cross country time to finish.  If you don’t have it beforehand, we can make arrangements.

 

Professional Flying Adventure

 

When you start flying, you know you need, eventually, an instrument rating to get the maximum utility and be a competent pilot.  Perhaps your insurance company told you needed both licenses.  If you start with the end in mind, you pursue the Private Pilot certificate and Instrument Rating concurrently.  The Best in Flight Professional Flying Adventure combines both in an intense six week package.  On fair weather days, we learn private pilot flying under visual flight rules.  On days when the weather is not so nice, we fly by reference to instruments.  When there are thunderstorms, we do ground school. 

 

Your adventure will include flying all over the United States and Canada, and make a trip to Alaska.  We will fly the Alaska Highway through the Canadian Rockies, over which fifteen thousand airplanes flew in WWII.  We will fly around Mount McKinley.  We will visit Leadville, Colorado to find out what density altitude is all about.  We’ll learn crosswind landings in Kansas, where the wind comes sweeping ‘cross the Plains.  We will fly low over the bonefish flats in the Florida Keys while learning about subtropical weather.

 

We start with a few days around New York.  We’ll get you a medical examination, learn takeoffs and landings, and get you prepped for the Private written test.  We’ll confirm that we’ve paired you with the right instructor.  If you are visiting from overseas, we’ll get all your TSA approvals in order.

 

You will spend a few days flying by yourself (fifty hours) to meet the aeronautical experience requirements for the Private certificate and Instrument rating.

 

For side adventures, we’ll stop in the Rockies, where you can experience sailplane flight at 15,000 in the wave.  You can get your seaplane rating in Florida or Alaska.  Want to jump out?  We’ll stop for that, too.  Or maybe we will fly into a private fish camp on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula or the Whitewater River in Arkansas.  Yes, the same Whitewater, but different owners.

 

The Professional Flying Adventure is a six week program, typically broken in the middle for some family time.  It’s worth it.  Otherwise you’d be driving to the airport every Saturday for a couple of years.  If you really cannot leave the workday world altogether, we’ll schedule two hours a day for you to take care of your business – when we are not out of cell-phone coverage in the Yukon Territories.  After that, it’s cell phones off and all we do is aviate or talk about flying when we are on the ground.  We won’t be totally out of touch, though: for safety, Best in Flight’s survival kit includes a satellite phone.

 

When we are done, you will have a Private Pilot certificate, and Instrument rating, and whatever endorsements are required for the aircraft we fly, including, variously, Tailwheel endorsement, Complex endorsement, High Performance endorsement, and the scenario-based training to be a Technically Advanced Pilot. 

 

At the end, you will be qualified to take the commercial check ride, even if you don’t have enough hours yet.  You will probably be ready to take the Commercial written test as we will have covered most of that material as part of your deep training for the Private.

 

Flight Instruction Pricing

Flight Instructor: $50/hour
Competitive pricing and a range of equipment means you can earn your pilot's license without breaking the bank. For more information on equipment and pricing, please contact our office.

Certificates and Ratings

Best in Flight Aviation Academy provides expert flight instruction for the following certificates and ratings:

Private Pilot - Airplane
Single Engine Land

Instrument Rating - Airplane

Commercial Pilot - Airplane
Single Engine Land (Add-On)

Certified Flight Instructor -
Airplane (Add-On)

Certified Flight Instructor -
Instrument (Initial)

Certified Flight Instructor -
Instrument (Add-On)