(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
A full-motion Redbird MCX on the ground at Van Nuys, plus a Redbird TD2 you can fly at home. Together they let you train in less time, spend less money, and walk into every real lesson already ahead.
Our Redbird MCX is a full-motion, FAA-approved advanced aviation training device. It pitches, rolls, and yaws on its motion platform while wraparound visuals put you over real terrain — so your body and your instincts train together, not just your hands.
Because it is FAA-approved, the time you log in it counts toward your certificate and ratings. And because it can be reconfigured to fly like the airplanes in our fleet, from a Garmin trainer to the Cirrus Perspective flight deck, the transition from sim to airplane is seamless.
Master procedures on the ground so your airplane hours are spent flying, not fumbling. Students who use the sim tend to progress faster.
Simulator time costs less than aircraft time. Practicing here first lowers the total cost of earning your certificate.
Repeat a maneuver or approach as many times as you need, pause to discuss, and reset instantly — impossible in the airplane.
Engine failures, system malfunctions, and low weather become teachable moments instead of theory — with zero risk.
Your instructor can freeze weather, time of day, and failures on demand, building exactly the scenario you need to learn.
Fly realistic missions and real approaches into real airports, so you arrive at the airplane already knowing the plan.
Some of the most important skills in aviation are the ones you hope never to need. In the sim you can fly an engine failure at night, a missed approach in low weather, or an instrument approach to minimums — over and over, until your response is calm and automatic. That is how confident, capable pilots are built.
Because the Redbird MCX is FAA-approved, approved training time logged in it applies toward your certificate and ratings — so you are not just practicing, you are making real, creditable progress every session.
Enrolled students get access to the Redbird TD2, a realistic desktop training device you can fly between lessons. Practice your flows, chair-fly your next maneuver, and stay sharp on your own schedule so every dollar you spend in the airplane goes further. Consistency is what builds skill, and the TD2 keeps you flying even on the days you cannot get to the airport.
Sit in the Redbird MCX, feel it move, and see how much faster and more affordable your training can be. Seven days a week at Van Nuys.
Real students, real first flights, real ratings — straight from Google and Yelp.
The fastest way to know if the left seat is for you is to stand on the flight line. Book a free consultation — or reach us whichever way you like.
Tour the school, meet your instructors, sit in the cockpit, and leave with a personal training plan and exact pricing. Your Discovery Flight fee is credited toward training when you enroll within 24 hours.
One minute, a few details, fast answers from a real person on our team.
