Luxury Discovery Flight For Two90 Minutes
Ninety minutes in the turbocharged Cirrus SR22 from Van Nuys, $549, companion seat included. Long enough to fly the avionics, not just look at them.
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What The Number Buys
Ninety Minutes Is Where The Avionics Start To Matter
$549. An hour in a glass-panel airplane is mostly spent being shown the panel. Ninety minutes is long enough to make it do something under your own hands.
| Price | $549 |
| Time booked | 90 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 The Extra Half Hour Is Spent On
Setting up a leg on the flight deck and then flying it. Loading a destination, reading a moving map against what is actually outside the window, watching the engine page while a turbocharged engine is asked to climb. None of that fits in a sixty-minute slot once the departure sequence at a Class D field has taken its share.
It is also enough time to be shown, rather than told, why the automation is not the same thing as skill. An autopilot flying a heading is not a pilot flying a heading, and the difference shows up the moment the picture stops matching the plan.
Who Books The Ninety Over The Sixty
People weighing the Premium program at $22,500 against the Comprehensive at $15,900, and people who already fly and want type familiarity rather than an introduction. If neither describes you, the sixty-minute booking is the better value and we would rather sell you that.
The Downside, Stated Plainly
Glass makes an early student slower to build a scan, not faster. The instrument scan you develop when the information is pre-digested is a weaker one, and it has to be rebuilt later. That is a real cost and it is not on the invoice.
Automation is a tool for a pilot who already has the skill. It is not a substitute for acquiring it.
Facts You Can Check
- Every type in the fleet is school property, serviced on site. Instruction for hire triggers the 100-hour interval written into 14 CFR 91.409(b), and we would rather carry that cost than argue about it with an owner.
- Eleven instructors, matched to students one at a time and changeable if the pairing is wrong. Each holds a CFI alongside a commercial certificate or an ATP.
- A Redbird MCX lives on the field. It is enclosed, it sits on a motion base, it holds FAA approval, and a standalone booking is $189.
- The flyable-days figure for this field is 355, counted from NOAA ASOS records over the year to 1 August 2026 rather than estimated from a brochure.
- Fixed prices, published in full. The figure you agree at the start is the figure at the end, which is the point of buying a program rather than hours.
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.