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Best in Flight Adventures ·
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 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 choice—we can fly to
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. 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 We start with a few days around 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 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. |
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