FLIGHT TRAINING IN VAN NUYS AIRPORT

Yes, Encore Flight Academy offers aircraft rental to all our graduate. You will have a 24/7 access to our fleet, with online scheduling.

The Minimum program offers the FAA minimum requirement for getting a private pilot certificate.  This might be enough flight training for some, however most people require some additional flight training, therefore the Premium program offer total of 50 hours of flight time (10 hour more than FAA minimums).

Encore Flight Academy utilizes a complete syllabus for the Private Pilot Course, this syllabus has total of 40 lessons. By attending 2 to 3 sessions a week, most people complete the program in about 3 months.

All flight training is done on one-on-one basis, therefore students pick the best time to fly based on their own schedules.

Encore Flight Academy is open 7 days week. The flight sessions could be scheduled from 8am until 11pm daily.

You will fly minimum of 5 hours of flight time at night during the Private Pilot Course, since your license will allow you fly at night. You can do more sessions at night time if you like, however it preferred to do most of the flight training during day time hours.

Encore Flight Academy offers several different makes of aircrafts. Most student pick one platform as the primary aircraft type, however throughout the course you will fly in all different makes of aircraft to be able to comfortably rent them in the future.

No, in any of our Private Pilot Packages, we calculate the aircraft rental rate at $109/hours. Students could change the aircrafts at any time during the course.

Yes, most of your training aircrafts are four seaters. You are more than welcome to invite a friend at no additional cost.

FAA requires you to have total of 50 hours of X-Country PIC (Pilot In Command) time before the Instrument CheckRide. If you don’t have the X-Country time you would need to get the second package.

The Instrument Rating course has total of 35 lessons and usually it takes about 2 to 3 months to complete.

You do can choose between the Piper, Diamond and Cessna, however most people do their training in Piper Warriors.

Yes, All of our Flight Simulators are FAA approved, FAA allow up to 10 hours of total Instrument training to be done in flight simulators.

You have three options to complete the whole course:

1. Accelerated, You can finish all you training a obtain all you Pilot’s licenses in as little at 5 months. This option will require you to to fly at least Six days a week, and on many sessions
2. Full Time, by attending 5 session a week, the full course will be completed in 13 months.
3. Part Time, by attending 3 season a week, the full course will be completed in 18 months.

For full time program you need to attend 5 times a week to complete the program in 13 months, and 3 times a week to complete the program in 18 months.

At Encore Flight Academy each session is done on one-on-one basis, you can simply call our front desk 7 days a week to make the reservation, or use our online scheduling software.

Yes, in fact Encore Flight Academy offers a guaranteed position as a Flight Instructor upon completion of the course.

U.S. Airlines require all pilot to have total flight time of 1500 hours. Encore Flight Academy offers you a paid Instructor position to build your flight time to 1500 hours.

Our Flight Instructors fly about 100 hours a month, for most people it takes about a year to reach 1500 hours of flight time.

You need to have total of 1500 hours of total logged time get your ATP certificate.

Depending on your flight experience the ATP Course could take between 3 to 10 hours of flight time, we also recommend at least 2 hours of FAA Approved flight simulator time.

Yes, the ATP program could be completed in as little as a week, or 2 or 3 weekends.