{"product_id":"commercial-airline-pilot-training-los-angeles","title":"Commercial Airline Pilot Training At Van Nuys Airport","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"apfpd\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle\u003e.apfpd{font-family:'IBM Plex Sans',-apple-system,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif;color:#0B0F14;line-height:1.6;max-width:900px}.apfpd h2{font-size:1.6rem;font-weight:650;margin:0 0 .4em;letter-spacing:-.01em;color:#0B0F14}.apfpd h3{font-size:1.06rem;font-weight:650;margin:1.5em 0 .35em;color:#151C24}.apfpd p{margin:.5em 0}.apfpd .apfld{font-size:1.06rem;color:#151C24}.apfpd ul{margin:.5em 0 .5em 1.1em;padding:0}.apfpd li{margin:.28em 0}.apfpd .apfsp{border-left:3px solid #C8862B;padding:.15em 0 .15em .9em;margin:1.2em 0}.apfpd .apffig{font-family:'IBM Plex Mono',ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,monospace;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums;font-weight:600}.apfpd .apfstd{border:1px solid #E2DED7;border-radius:10px;padding:.9em 1.1em;margin:1.5em 0;background:#F4F2EE}.apfpd .apfstd h3{margin-top:0}.apfpd .apfkv{border-collapse:collapse;margin:.9em 0;width:100%;max-width:620px}.apfpd .apfkv td{border-bottom:1px solid #E2DED7;padding:.42em .6em .42em 0;vertical-align:top;font-size:.96rem}.apfpd .apfkv td:first-child{color:#6E7681;width:44%}.apfpd .apfhon{border:1px solid #CFC9BF;border-radius:10px;padding:.9em 1.1em;margin:1.5em 0}.apfpd .apfhon h3{margin-top:0}\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eZero hours to a commercial certificate and an instructor rating, \u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$89,000\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"apfld\"\u003eOne price for the whole sequence, agreed before the first flight. This is the biggest capital commitment on the store, so the page is written to be argued with rather than admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"apfkv\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePrice\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$89,000\u003c\/span\u003e, fixed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinancing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFrom \u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$2,500\u003c\/span\u003e down, with monthly plans\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCertificates and ratings\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePrivate pilot · Instrument rating · Commercial single-engine · Commercial multi-engine · Multi-engine rating · Flight instructor, instrument instructor and multi-engine instructor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAircraft\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWarrior · DA20 · Skycatcher · Arrow II · Seminole\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSimulator\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRedbird MCX time built into the sequence\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAircraft rate inside the program\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$179\u003c\/span\u003e an hour, wet, single-engine\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRegulation\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 CFR 61.129 governs commercial aeronautical experience; 14 CFR 61.31(e) the complex endorsement\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eField\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVan Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe sequence, and why it is in this order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrivate first, because everything else takes it as a prerequisite. Instrument second, because a commercial pilot who cannot work inside the air traffic system is a commercial pilot with a small market, and because instrument time is cheaper to buy in a single than later in a twin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the complex time. The Arrow II folds its gear away and hands you a propeller to set, which is the pairing 14 CFR 61.31(e) calls complex, and 14 CFR 61.129 wants some of that time inside the commercial experience. Multi-engine after that, in the Seminole. Instructor ratings last, because teaching is how most people build the experience that comes after this program ends, and because nothing sharpens a maneuver like having to explain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTempo is what decides whether this price holds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fixed price assumes a fixed rate of progress. This program is built for someone flying most days, and Van Nuys supports that: 355 days met a 3,000 ft and 5 sm over the year ending 1 August 2026, from NOAA ASOS records requiring four qualifying daytime hours for a day to count. Weather is not what will slow you down here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour job and your family might be. The tempo this program assumes is not one most people can sustain alongside full-time employment, and a candidate who tries to run it at two flights a week is buying a longer, more expensive version of it. That is worth saying before the deposit, not after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe risks, named\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA first-class medical can end this plan before it starts. Get it under 14 CFR 61.23 before you commit money, not after — the vision, hearing and cardiac standards in 14 CFR 67.103 are specific and they are not negotiable at hour two hundred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is the money. \u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$89,000\u003c\/span\u003e is a capital decision and it is financed by most people who make it, from \u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$2,500\u003c\/span\u003e down. Stalling partway through a program with a large loan and no certificate that earns money is the outcome to design against, and the way to design against it is tempo, a medical secured first, and a plan you have shown to somebody who will tell you it is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat happens at the end\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou hold a commercial certificate and instructor ratings, and you are qualified to be paid to fly and to teach. What you do not hold is a job. The next stage of a professional career is flying hours, usually as an instructor, and that stage is longer than most people expect when they start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"apfsp\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe failure mode is not failing a checkride. It is stopping at two hundred hours with a loan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"apfstd\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the price is buying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe fleet is bought, not borrowed. Six types, one owner, one maintenance program, and an inspection interval set by 14 CFR 91.409(b) because these airplanes teach for hire.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe instructing staff numbers eleven. Three credentials are required of every one of them: a flight instructor certificate, an ATP or a commercial certificate behind it, and a medical that has not lapsed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere is an FAA-approved Redbird MCX on site, on a motion base and closed in. A session on its own is \u003cspan class=\"apffig\"\u003e$189\u003c\/span\u003e, and no session has ever been lost to weather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNOAA ASOS records for this field give 355 training days in the year ending 1 August 2026, tested against 3,000 ft and 5 sm with four qualifying daytime hours needed before a day counts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat you enroll at is what is published. We do not run block rates and we do not negotiate, which is what makes a fixed price mean anything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 61, stated plainly. The curriculum, the prices and the hours are published; a pass rate and a graduate count are not, because there is no honest one to print yet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"apfhon\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe name, and what it does not mean\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word airline is in our name because it describes the reader we built the curriculum for. It does not describe a relationship with any carrier, because we have none — no cadet scheme, no pathway agreement, no hiring arrangement, and no ownership by an airline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo interview and no job is promised or implied by anything here. We publish no checkride pass rate and no graduate count, for the straightforward reason that a school trading for a matter of weeks has nothing honest to put in either number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe curriculum, the prices and the hours are all published. Those are the things we can stand behind on day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Airline Pilot Flight School","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52957457449277,"sku":null,"price":89000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/flightschool.la\/products\/commercial-airline-pilot-training-los-angeles","provider":"Airline Pilot Flight School","version":"1.0","type":"link"}