Discovery Flight For Two — 90 Minutes
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.