Our Instructors

Eleven. That figure is published because it is a scheduling fact rather than a compliment: with eleven instructors a syllabus does not stall when one person takes a week off, and a stalled syllabus is the most common reason a part-time private certificate stretches into a third year.

14 CFR 61.183 asks for eighteen years of age, English proficiency, and a commercial certificate or an ATP whose category and class rating suits the instructor rating being sought. An instrument rating is required on top where the rating calls for one, alongside a knowledge test on the fundamentals of instructing.

A CFI may give flight training toward a certificate or rating in the category and class the certificate carries. A CFII adds the authority to teach toward an instrument rating. An MEI adds the authority to teach in a multi-engine airplane. They are separate ratings with separate practical tests, and not every instructor holds all three.

Until you are endorsed to fly solo, yes. That is why an assessment flight requires no medical certificate from you and why responsibility for the airplane does not rest on a student who has never flown one. Once you are soloing, command passes to you on those flights and the instructor is not aboard.

Yes, by asking, and no explanation is required or requested. A poor fit between a student and an instructor is nobody’s failure, and every hour it goes unaddressed is an hour of money spent on friction rather than on learning. Raise it early rather than politely enduring it.

Eight, and 14 CFR 61.195(a) is where that ceiling sits. It applies across any twenty-four consecutive hours. It is a fatigue limit rather than a target, most instructors are comfortably below it on a normal day, and it is a useful arithmetic check on any accelerated schedule you are offered anywhere.

It depends when the certificate was issued. 14 CFR 61.19(d) issues them without an expiration date from 1 December 2024 onward. Anything older ran twenty-four calendar months from whichever month brought it into being. Either way, the privileges still depend on meeting a recent-experience route under 61.197 inside the preceding twenty-four calendar months.

Because nobody has taken them yet. Using stock photography of another school’s people and presenting it as ours would be a lie told in a picture. When the photographs exist they will appear here, and until then this page publishes what it can substantiate instead.

Because a reader cannot verify them. Total-hours figures are self-reported, a list of former employers borrows somebody else’s reputation, and a stated passion for teaching cannot be falsified. What is publishable is the regulatory standard every instructor meets, which is identical across all eleven and checkable by anybody.

Mostly. You are matched with a primary instructor for each phase, because continuity matters more in early training than almost anything else. At phase boundaries you fly a stage check with somebody other than your own instructor, which catches what a familiar pairing has stopped noticing.

The slot is offered to another instructor with your training record in front of them, so a cover lesson starts from where you actually are. You may decline the substitute and reschedule instead. Where an absence turns out to be long, you are re-matched openly rather than left collecting cancellations.

No, and there is nowhere on this site that does. The school is new, and any rating it published would either be borrowed from another business or invented. Reviews will appear only when this school’s own profile carries real ones, and then only the number that profile actually shows on the day.