Flight Training Package For Teens — Ages 10 To 15
A structured block of real lessons, ages 10 to 15
$4,200 for a defined package of dual flight instruction with one instructor, ground instruction pitched at a younger student, and a logbook that records every flight. The hours are real hours and they do not expire.
| Price | $4,200, fixed |
| Ages | 10 to 15 |
| Format | One-to-one dual flight instruction with a dedicated instructor |
| Also includes | Ground instruction on the fundamentals, a personal logbook and a completion certificate |
| Aircraft | A single-engine trainer from the fleet |
| Who is pilot in command | The instructor, on every flight, always |
| Field | Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
What a young student actually does in the airplane
Flies it. Hands on the controls, climbing, turning, holding a heading, talking through what the airplane is doing and why. Takeoffs and landings belong to the instructor, who also holds legal command of the aircraft for the whole flight. That is a regulatory fact rather than a formality.
Ground instruction is pitched at the age rather than watered down. The physics of why a wing works does not get simpler for a twelve-year-old, but the order you teach it in does.
The thing to be clear about before you buy
A student in this age range cannot solo. The FAA sets a minimum age for a student pilot certificate and for solo flight in an airplane, and everybody in this program is below it. Every hour is flown with an instructor aboard.
That is not a limitation of the package, it is the law, and any program implying otherwise for a child of this age is describing something that cannot happen. What the hours do is count: they are logged, signed, and they sit in the logbook waiting for the day a certificate becomes possible.
Whether this is a good use of the money
For a young person who is genuinely interested, yes. Logged dual instruction at fourteen is time that never has to be flown again, and the habits built early with a professional instructor are better habits than the ones built late.
For a young person who is politely interested because an adult is, no. Buy a single lesson first and find out. That is $229 and it answers the question honestly.
Buy one lesson before you buy a package. Enthusiasm at the airport gate is not the same as enthusiasm at hour six.
What the parents should know we can prove
- Six airframes sit on this ramp and the school owns all six outright. Nothing is brokered in, nothing is on leaseback, and the shop that services them is ours.
- Eleven on the instructing roster. All of them fly on a commercial certificate or an ATP, all of them teach on a CFI, and none of them instruct on an expired medical.
- Whoever occupies the right seat holds the legal command of the aircraft on these flights. It is a regulatory position rather than a courtesy title.
- Procedure work happens in the Redbird MCX rather than in an airplane, because it is cheaper and because it can be stopped and rewound. $189 a session standalone.
- We counted the weather rather than guessing at it: 355 days here cleared 3,000 ft and 5 sm in the year to 1 August 2026, from NOAA ASOS records, and the method is published with its limitations.
- Published pricing, all of it, with no spreads. A program costs one number and that number is on its page.