Denis Vyatkin

Pilot & Owner

Denis Vyatkin

Denis owns the school and flies as its lead pilot and senior flight instructor, overseeing the whole ladder taught here — private pilot, commercial, instrument, the CFI and CFII instructor certificates, and multi-engine training. The person who sets your syllabus is the person flying its later stages with you.

At The School

Owner, Lead Pilot, Senior Instructor

Three roles, and at a two-person school they are not separable.

Denis owns the business, flies as its lead pilot, and teaches as its senior flight instructor. That is why the training plan and the flying agree with each other: nobody is handing a syllabus to somebody else to fly.

The oversight covers Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Instrument, CFI, CFII and multi-engine training — between them, every certificate and rating the school teaches.

Both instructors
What They Oversee

What Denis Teaches

The advanced end of the ladder, and the certificates people fly professionally with.

Commercial pilot

The certificate that makes flying a job rather than a licence, flown to the standard an examiner will hold you to.

Commercial pilot training

Instrument rating

Flown in the aircraft, in real weather and real Sacramento Valley airspace.

Instrument rating

CFI and CFII

The instructor certificates — taught by somebody who runs a school on them, not only holds them.

CFI and CFII training

Multi-engine

Flown in the school's Piper PA-44 Seminole, for the multi-engine rating and the MEI.

The fleet
In Their Own Words

How Denis Runs A Lesson

Fly often, brief properly, and never leave a lesson without knowing what the next one is.

That is the whole method, and each part of it is doing work. Flying often is what keeps a motor skill from decaying between repetitions. Briefing properly is what makes an hour in the air worth what it costs. And leaving a lesson knowing what the next one is means you arrive at the aircraft ready rather than waiting to be told.

How a lesson is structured, start to finish
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From The Flight Line

The school as it flies — straight from its Instagram.

Ask For Denis By Name

Fly With Denis

Flight education is $110 an hour, all in. Call (916) 907-5812 or send us a request and ask for Denis by name.