Beginner Pilots
Flying as a Hobby or Career

Nope. Our instructors are active airline pilots who work with Simtech Aviation on their days off. The best way to meet/chat with an instructor is to book a lesson or a free consultation.

Great! First step is to earn a Private Pilot Certificate.

We wrote a blog that will set you on the path to toward becoming an airline pilot in NYC: Click Here.

Of course! There are many people in New York City who fly as a hobby. Most folks get their Private Pilot Certificate and roll right into doing their Instrument Rating.

We specialize in working with people who fly as a hobby or do it on part-time bases.

Yes, we provide the Sportys Private Pilot Flight Training Course Sylabus.

If you already are working with a flight school and have a sylabus, we can shadow their lesson plans and your stafe of training.

With the bast expirience of our instructors and the lesson plans, we can create different scenarios each lesson to challenge your skills as a pilot.

If you live in the New York City Area, you would need to fly out of:

In NY: Republic Airport, Islip, White Plains.

In NJ: Cadwell, Morristown, and Lincoln Park are the closest airports for flight training.

Find a flight school, interview instructors, and start taking flight lessons!

You can use our certified flight simulator to supplement your flight training during the weekday.

Flight lessons charge $175/hour to rent the airplane and $85/hour for the instructor, on average.
The number of hours is charged starting from the time the engine starts to the time it shuts down.

We do not offer flight training in an airplane.

We charge a combined rate (including the simulator and instructor) by the hour for our simulator. Lessons are 2-3 hours long.

If you are a U.S. Citizen, all you need to do is select a flight school and have an instructor check your passport or birth certificate. Then you'll get an endorsement on your logbook. This a TSA requirement.

If you are not a U.S. Citizen, you can only do a discovery flight and safety training. You will need to select a flight school and obtain the required form to submit to the TSA.

You actually don’t need a degree to fly recreationally. If you are planning to fly as a career, there are many pilot jobs that don't require one (excluding major U.S. airlines).

Unfortunately, no. First and foremost, when practicing instrument procedures at any level, it’s best to have an outside eye to check your mistakes. (You don’t want to be practicing the wrong procedures.) Second, the machine itself is very delicate, and while the instructors make it look easy to operate, they went through extensive training in order to do so.

Ideally, one person. However, a 2-hour lesson can be split between two people, and a 3-hour lesson can be split between 3-4 people. Click Here to Book

For a single lesson, if you are not happy with your lesson and let us know within 48 hours, we will refund you 100% of the lesson.