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Flight Training · Part 61

Flight training in Anderson, first lesson to CFI.

Instruction from your first lesson to your checkride, with a real brief and a real debrief every time.

Flight planPrivate → CFI
Home field
KAND · Anderson Regional Airport
Aircraft
Identical 172 Skyhawks
Instructors
Several full-time CFIs
Programs
Five
Aerial view of a wide, tree-lined lake with wooded shores and a few lakeside homes From the air
Programs

Five programs, one standard.

The FAA sequence runs Private, then Instrument, then Commercial, then CFI.

01 Private Pilot LicenseMost students start here Most students start with the Private Pilot License. It lets you fly yourself, family and friends, and every other certificate builds on it.

You fly a Cessna 172 with a full-time career instructor, following the school’s own syllabus. Your progress is monitored at every stage.

Under Part 61 the FAA minimum is 40 flight hours. How quickly you get there depends mostly on how often you fly, and we’ll quote your training from your own schedule.

Start with a $200 Discovery Flight. It’s a real lesson with you at the controls.

02 Instrument Rating (IFR)All-weather precision The instrument rating teaches you to fly by reference to the instruments and in the clouds. It makes you a more precise pilot in any weather.

You train in the same Cessna 172s with the same modern avionics you already know, so your attention stays on procedures instead of a new panel.

The FAA requires 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time and 50 hours of cross-country time as pilot in command.

Already a private pilot? Call and we’ll look at your logbook and plan what’s left.

03 Commercial Pilot License (CPL)Fly for a career The commercial certificate lets you be paid to fly. It’s the next step toward a career as a pilot.

Career students can train full time. Consistent, frequent flying is the fastest route.

Under Part 61 the FAA requires 250 total flight hours for the commercial certificate. We’ll help you plan how to build that time.

Call and we’ll lay out a plan from where you are now to the checkride.

04 Flight Instructor (CFI/CFII)Teach what you fly The CFI certificate lets you teach others to fly, and the CFII adds instrument instruction. You’ll learn from instructors who chose teaching as a career.

The school’s instructors are full-time career CFIs, and its founder was a chief instructor. They know what good instruction looks like.

You need a commercial pilot certificate with an instrument rating to become a CFI; the CFII adds the instrument instructor rating.

Call to talk through where you are and what the CFI or CFII will take.

Alongside every rating

Stay sharp and current

Flight Reviews & Currency

Already a pilot? Get current again or complete your flight review in a well-kept Cessna 172 with modern avionics.

How it works

Training built around you

Discovery Flights are $200. For a certificate or rating we quote you individually, because how often you fly is the biggest factor in what training costs.

01

Brief

A real pre-flight brief: what you’ll fly today, and why.

02

Fly

Your time in the air over the Anderson area.

03

Debrief

What happened, what went well, and what the next lesson sets up.

A written syllabus. Every lesson follows a syllabus the school developed itself, so each flight builds on the last.

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Flight Training · Anderson Regional Airport

Not sure where to start?

Call us and we'll talk it through — where you are, where you want to go, and what it takes to get there, numbers included.

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