Luxury Discovery Flight For Two — 120 Minutes
Two hours is enough to leave the basin and come back
$699, and the Cirrus booking with enough endurance for a proper leg out and a leg home rather than a lap of the practice area.
| Price | $699 |
| Time booked | 120 minutes |
| Aircraft | Cirrus SR22 Turbo — turbocharged, glass flight deck, CAPS whole-airframe parachute |
| Who is flying | One of you, from the left seat |
| What is logged | Dual instruction received, for the person flying |
| Hourly rate | Not published for this airframe |
| Published weight limit | 200 lb per person, 400 lb combined |
| Field | Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
What two hours in this airframe demonstrates
The case for a turbocharged, fast single is a cross-country case. It is not visible in a circuit and it is barely visible in ninety minutes. Give it two hours and a destination and the airplane starts making an argument for itself: it holds altitude in warm air, it covers ground, and the flight deck keeps the navigation problem tidy while you fly.
You will also see the other half. A faster airplane compresses your decision time, and the workload in the descent and arrival is where a low-time pilot in a high-performance single gets behind. Two hours is long enough for that to happen at least once, under instruction, which is exactly where it should happen.
Where this sits against the programs
This is the pre-purchase flight for the $22,500 Premium Private Pilot program. If you finish it convinced, the program is a defensible decision. If you finish it thinking the airplane was doing more of the work than you were, the $15,900 Comprehensive program is the better one and you have saved $6,600 by finding out in an afternoon.
Weight, heat and honest planning
Published limits are 200 lb per person and 400 lb combined. Van Nuys sits at 802 ft and performs like roughly 4,100 ft on a hot September afternoon, and 14 CFR 91.103 puts the performance calculation on the pilot in command before every flight. Turbocharging helps here more than it helps anywhere else in the country.
A fast airplane does not give you more time. It gives you less.
The standards behind this booking
- Six types, all owned here, all maintained here. When an airplane is due for the 100-hour inspection that 14 CFR 91.409(b) demands of a trainer, it comes off the line and gets one.
- Instructing staff: eleven. Credentials, without exception: a flight instructor certificate, a commercial certificate or an ATP behind it, and a medical in date.
- One simulator, and it is a good one: an FAA-approved Redbird MCX, enclosed cockpit, motion base. Booked on its own it costs $189.
- Weather costs a full-time student roughly ten days a year here. NOAA ASOS records put 355 days above 3,000 ft and 5 sm in the twelve months ending 1 August 2026.
- Every program price is printed on this store. There are no ranges, no block-rate discounts and no number you have to ask for.