What Our Students Say

The bigger academies in the area show several times as many reviews as we do, and the arithmetic behind that is not mysterious: a school with a dozen instructors flies far more people than a school with two, and reviews follow flights.

So read a count as a measure of size, and the reviews themselves as a measure of the teaching. Thirty-eight is what we have. More than three hundred discovery flights have been flown here since the school opened in 2022, and more than fifteen students have finished a certificate, and most people who fly never write anything at all — which is true of every business on the list you are comparing.

There is one advantage to a small number. You can read all of it in a few minutes, including the four-star one about aircraft availability, which we have left exactly where it is.

Google publishes 4.9 across eight reviews. Facebook publishes thirty recommendations and no average at all, because a Facebook recommendation is a yes rather than a score. Averaging the two would produce a figure nobody has computed, so this page does not print one — not in the text, and not in the structured data a search engine reads.

It is a small thing, and it is a useful thing to check on any school’s website. A star rating that appears on a company’s own pages but not on the profile it says it came from was assembled by the company.

The reviews live on our Google Business Profile and our Facebook page, where you can see who wrote them and when, and where we cannot edit or reorder them. If anything on this site and the platform ever differ, the platform is the one to believe.

• Every review is written by the person who flew. We never write, ghostwrite or commission one.
• Everyone is invited. After a first solo, a passed checkride or a completed discovery flight, the school sends the same neutral request by email two or three days later — the same message to everyone, whatever the flight was like.
• Quotes are used sparingly and always credited. Publishing a photograph, a full name or an extended student story needs that person’s separate written consent.
• We answer reviews ourselves, usually within a week, without disclosing anything about a student’s training or personal circumstances.

A first solo, a private pilot checkride, an adult student who changed career — there are stories here worth telling properly. We publish them one at a time, after an interview, a fact check and a signed release from the person in them. If you have trained with us and would like yours told, say so; if you would rather not, nothing appears.

Already flown with us? Share how it went — your review helps the next person choose the right flight for them, especially a first-timer deciding whether to book at all.

You will get a link from us a couple of days after your flight, and you can leave one any time from our Google listing. If something fell short, tell us directly — we would rather hear it first and put it right.

Reviews are one way to size up a flight school. These are the others, and every one of them is something you can do before spending anything.

• Come and look at the aircraft. Call ahead and we will meet you in the lobby — four of them, from a Cessna 150 trainer to a Piper Seminole twin.
• Ask who is teaching you and what they teach. Both instructors and the certificates they take students through are on the instructors page.
• Read the pricing before you call. The full rate card, what is not included, and a worked private pilot estimate are on the pricing page.
• Read the cancellation policy. It is in our terms, not buried in a phone call.