Initial CFI, CFII, and instrument training in Orlando. Same instructor, start to checkride.

Initial CFI, CFII, and instrument training at Orlando Apopka Airport (X04), plus commercial, private, checkride prep, and flight reviews. Taught by an independent CFI in Countrywide Flyers club airplanes.

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Discovery flights are $149 or $209, airplane included. The consult is free, 30 minutes.

Promo

Initial CFI and CFII at the private-pilot rate.

Regularly $95/hr. Now $75/hr, the same as private, instrument, and commercial training.

Enroll at $75 and it stays $75 through your checkride.

Discovery flights

Your first flight, with you at the controls. The price includes everything, airplane and instruction.

  • 30-minute discovery flight

    $149, airplane included

    About 30 minutes at the controls, around 1 hour 45 total.

    You leave with photos the same day.

    Book the 30-minute discovery flight
  • 1-hour discovery flight

    $209, airplane included

    One hour of flight time, engine start to shutdown, about 45 minutes of it in the air, so there's time to learn something rather than sample it.

    It's also long enough to fly south from Apopka to Walt Disney World, with you flying the airplane there and back, when weather and traffic allow.

    You leave with photos the same day and a written training plan that says what a certificate would take for you, in hours and dollars.

    Book the 1-hour discovery flight

How booking works

Why train here

  • Depth

    2,000 hours of dual given, most of it at a 400-student academy, where he gave stage checks and trained initial CFIs.

  • Continuity

    Same instructor, start to checkride. He isn't building hours to leave for an airline.

  • Standards

    ACS-grade, written down. Written debrief after every lesson, honest readiness calls.

  • Safety culture

    Risk management as the subject. ADM and go/no-go discipline taught explicitly.

Services

Instruction — paid to DZ Aviation
ServicePrice
Flight instruction$75/hr
Initial CFI instructionRegularly $95/hr , now $75/hr
CFII instructionRegularly $95/hr , now $75/hr
Aircraft — paid to Countrywide Flyers
AircraftRate
Cessna 172$165/hr
Piper Archer$185/hr

Instruction and club aircraft prices are published. You pay for instruction after each lesson, with no prepaid blocks and no large prepayments.

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Give a first flight

They fly the plane themselves, from the left seat.

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  • First Lesson · 1 hourMost popular$209
  • First Flight · 30 min$149
  • Flight Training Credit$75 · $150 · $300
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Where we fly

Orlando Apopka Airport (X04) is in Apopka, northwest of Orlando. We take students from Orlando, Apopka, Winter Garden, Windermere, Ocoee, Clermont, Winter Park, Altamonte Springs, and the rest of Central Florida.

Map to the hangar

How to start

  1. Book a discovery flight, or the free 30-minute training-plan consult.
  2. Fly at Orlando Apopka Airport (X04), in a Countrywide Flyers Cessna 172 or Piper Archer.
  3. Pay DZ Aviation for instruction and Countrywide Flyers for the airplane.
  4. Membership, checkout, and insurance rules are the club's. The club is Countrywide Flyers.

Full-time, with weekday and weekend availability.