Multi-Engine Discovery Flight — 120 Minutes
Two hours in a light twin, with somewhere to go
$899 and the longest multi-engine booking we sell. It is the one with room for a route, and a twin flown without a route is a twin doing nothing it is good at.
| Price | $899 |
| Time booked | 120 minutes |
| Aircraft | Piper Seminole — twin engine, counter-rotating propellers, retractable gear |
| Who is flying | You, from the left seat |
| What is logged | Dual instruction received, in your name |
| Hourly rate | Not published. Sold as a rating, $5,100 for the add-on. |
| Published weight limit | 600 lb |
| Field | Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
What the second hour is for
Planning and flying a leg away from Van Nuys with the airplane configured properly for cruise, then bringing it back and setting it up for an arrival. Gear, power, propellers and speed managed in a sequence that has to happen in order, while somebody on a radio asks you to do something else.
That is the actual work of flying a twin, and it does not appear inside an hour.
Where it fits in a career sequence
A multi-engine rating is a phase, not a purchase. It sits after the instrument rating for most people, because a twin flown in the system is worth more than a twin flown in good weather, and 14 CFR 61.129 governs the commercial aeronautical experience that the sequence is ultimately built toward.
The add-on is $5,100. This flight is how you decide whether to spend it now or later.
The cost warning we will give you unprompted
Two hours in a twin is the most expensive single booking on this store. If what you want is airplane time, you will get more of it, and learn more from it, in a single-engine trainer. If what you want is a decision about the multi-engine phase, this is the right purchase and the single is not.
This is a decision-making flight with a large price tag. Buy it for the decision.
What we publish and can show
- 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.