New Student Resources

I've gathered all the resources you will need to succeed in your flight training. You can find them below:

King Schools Private Pilot Ground School

$220

This online ground school will not only endorse you to take your written test, but it will also give you all the important knowledge you'll need to pass your checkride. Please reach out to Paul Bell at King Schools and tell him Gabe sent you. You'll receive a discount on the price of the course. Paul's number is: 1-858-576-6239.

Sporty's E6B Flight Computer

$69.95

Sporty's E6B Flight Computer is an FAA approved calculator that you will take with you to your written test. It also offers a significant advantage for flight planning. This Flight Computer will allow you to finish a navlog significantly faster than using a regular E6B. When the day of your checkride comes and you gotta be at the airport at 9am, you'll be thankful you had your sporty's E6B :)

Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride Audiobook

$6.95

From the founder of MzeroA, this audiobook allows you to fill in every drive, every break at work with valuable information that will help you tremendously with passing your checkride oral. By listening to this audiobook, your lessons will be much easier since you'll already know your stuff.

Your Training

Stage One

Aircraft Control

This is where you'll learn most of your stick & rudder skills. Stage 1 of flight training with me will introduce you to the most basic but crucial flying skills. Your milestone by the end of stage 1 is your solo! This usually happens around the 10 hour mark. By soloing, you prove that you're now Pilot in Command and you're able to control your aircraft no matter what mother nature throws at you.

Stage Two

Navigation

Now that you know how to fly an airplane, you'll learn how to navigate somewhere. This is the most fun part of flight training and the least frustrating. You'll get to pick where we'll go and enjoy all the beautiful scenery that Southern California has to offer. Although extremely fun, Stage Two requires a lot of knowledge and flight plan calculation. This is where most of your technical knowledge will come from.
Your end of stage 2 milestone is to enjoy your solo long cross country on your own! You'll get to spend hours in the air going somewhere completely by yourself. These are memories that will stick with you for the rest of your life.

Stage Three

Checkride Prep

You already have all the knowledge, now it's time to shape it to satisfy a Designated Pilot Examiner. Passing a checkride is a science that requires practice and experience. We'll work on making sure you know what to say and when to say it, all while keeping yourself from digging holes that are hard to climb out of.
Your milestone here is the best of them all, by passing your checkride you become our newest certificated Private Pilot.