Discovery Flight For Two90 Minutes
Ninety minutes of logged dual with a seat for a companion, $399. Enough time for a full airwork block away from the Van Nuys pattern.
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What The Number Buys
Ninety Minutes With A Passenger In The Back
$399 for the extended version of the two-person booking. The additional thirty minutes go to the person flying, not to the view.
| Price | $399 |
| Time booked | 90 minutes |
| Aircraft | A four-seat single from the fleet |
| Who is flying | One of you, from the left seat |
| What is logged | Dual instruction received, for the person flying |
| Counts toward | The 40 hours of flight time in 14 CFR 61.109 |
| Enrollment credit | The full $399 if that person enrolls within 24 hours |
| Published weight limit | 180 lb per person, 360 lb combined |
| Field | Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
Where The Extra Time Goes
Out of the pattern and into a practice area, where a maneuver can be flown, corrected and flown again. The second attempt at slow flight is the one that teaches something; the first is mostly a demonstration you happened to be holding the controls for.
A ninety-minute slot also absorbs a delay. A departure sequence behind two business jets does not eat the whole lesson.
Something To Settle Before You Arrive
The rear seat is a real seat, and it is a warm one in August with the canopy closed on the ramp. If your companion is prone to motion sickness, ninety minutes is the wrong booking for them and the sixty-minute flight is the right one. We would rather say that now than have you find out over the Santa Susanas.
Afterwards
The flying pilot leaves with a signed logbook entry and a written debrief. The passenger leaves with a much more accurate idea of what the next eighteen months of somebody else's life is going to look like.
Motion sickness is the most common reason a longer first flight goes badly. Plan for it.
The Standards This School Runs To
- Ownership rather than access: the six airframes belong to the school and are looked after in our own shop, which is why the schedule does not depend on somebody else's asset.
- Eleven people instruct here. Each carries a CFI, each holds either a commercial certificate or an ATP, and each keeps a medical in date under 14 CFR 61.23.
- The Redbird MCX here moves and is fully enclosed, which makes it worth using for scan and procedure work. $189 gets you a session of it.
- 355 days a year clear the minima we train to, 3,000 ft and 5 sm, on NOAA ASOS records for this field. What that measurement does not model — wind, and thin layers the sensor misreads — is published alongside it.
- The price list is the website. Nothing is quoted privately, nothing is discounted for signing on the day, and no figure appears here as a range.
Fly The Aeroplane Once, Then Decide
The assessment flight is the first hour of the syllabus and a two-way evaluation. You fly it from the left seat with an instructor beside you, they write down what they saw, and you get an honest read on whether the plan is realistic. It is loggable, and it is credited in full against enrolment if you enroll within 24 hours.
What happens on an assessment flight →
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One aircraft, one instructor, one slot on the schedule. Pick a time and we will confirm it.