Multi-Engine Discovery Flight Gift Card
A gift card for the twin-engine Piper Seminole flight at Van Nuys, in $499, $699 or $899 denominations for the 60, 90 and 120-minute bookings.
Pick Your Option
Cowlendar handles the calendar. Until the services are live this button places the booking through checkout and we confirm the slot by phone; either way you are booked and nothing is charged twice.
What The Number Buys
Twin Time, Bought For Somebody Who Will Know What It Is
Three denominations on the Piper Seminole: $499 for sixty minutes, $699 for ninety, $899 for two hours. This is the least beginner-friendly card on the store and that is deliberate.
| Denominations | $499 · $699 · $899 |
| What each one covers | The 60, 90 and 120-minute multi-engine bookings |
| Aircraft | Piper Seminole — twin engine, counter-rotating propellers, retractable gear |
| Who flies | The recipient, from the left seat |
| What is logged | Dual instruction received, in their name |
| Hourly rate | None published. Bought as a rating instead, at $5,100 for the add-on. |
| Published weight limit | 600 lb |
Who To Buy This For
A pilot. Somebody who already holds a certificate, or somebody on a professional track deciding when to spend the $5,100 on the multi-engine add-on. For them this is a genuinely rare and useful present, because twin time is expensive and nobody buys it for themselves casually.
Bought for somebody with no light-aircraft experience at all, this card is close to wasted. The systems workload swamps the flying, and the lesson they should be having is the one in a single at $229.
What The Flight Covers And What It Does Not
A departure, cruise, turns and a properly configured arrival in a twin whose propellers turn opposite ways and whose gear folds away. Not engine-out handling — that belongs inside a rating course with a syllabus and a checkride at the end, and any school offering it as a taster is doing something we will not.
This is a card for somebody who already has a logbook.
Behind The Card
- 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.
- 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.
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 →
Book It
One aircraft, one instructor, one slot on the schedule. Pick a time and we will confirm it.