Solo Certificate For Sport Or Private Pilot License
A fixed block of training that ends at your first solo
$5,500 covering the dual instruction, ground work and stage checks that take a person with no flying experience to their first supervised solo. All of it carries forward to a sport certificate or a private one.
| Price | $5,500, fixed |
| Ends at | A first supervised solo flight |
| Includes | Pre-solo dual instruction, one-to-one ground instruction, pre-solo knowledge test preparation and stage checks |
| Also includes | Guidance obtaining your FAA student pilot certificate |
| Applies toward | A sport or private pilot certificate |
| Aircraft rate inside the program | $179 an hour, wet, single-engine |
| Field | Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), Van Nuys, CA 91406 |
What this package is for
Committing to a defined amount rather than an open-ended one. Some people want to know they can do this before they agree to a full certificate, and a first solo is the honest milestone at which that question gets answered. Nothing in the block is wasted if you carry on — the hours are logged and the training is the same training.
It is also the right purchase for somebody whose budget is genuinely finite this year and who wants a real achievement inside it rather than a partial one.
What has to be true before you can solo
An FAA medical, governed by 14 CFR 61.23, is required, together with a student pilot certificate and an endorsement from your instructor. That endorsement is a professional judgment about a specific person in a specific airplane at a specific airport, and it is not on a schedule.
Which is the part worth understanding before you buy: this package contains a defined block of training, and the solo happens when your instructor is satisfied. It is not a date. Anybody promising you a solo by a fixed day is applying pressure to the wrong person.
The airspace factor here
A first solo here happens inside Class D airspace that sits directly below the Los Angeles Class B, sharing a pattern with jets. That takes a student longer than a quiet uncontrolled field would, and it produces a more capable pilot. Both halves of that are true and we would rather you knew the first one now.
A first solo is earned on your instructor's judgment, not on a calendar.
Standards behind the block
- 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.
- Part 61, stated plainly. The curriculum, the prices and the hours are published; a pass rate and a graduate count are not, because there is no honest one to print yet.