Welcome to Horizon Flight Center! Horizon Flight Center is an authorized Part 141 Cessna Pilot Center located in the heart of beautiful Chesapeake, Virginia.
Horizon Flight Center has the newest fleet in the area with the latest technology providing the safest training available. The new Garmin G-1000 (Glass Cockpit) is one of the safest training aircraft today providing traffic avoidance radar, NEXRAD weather radar, Terrain avoidance, and much more. Horizon Flight Center has been serving the aviation community for over 15 years and our safety record is impeccable!! Horizon Flight Center, LLC is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Part 141 flight training school. As a part 141 flight center, we are required to adhere to the highest standards set forth by the FAA, including the training curriculum, the instructors, aircraft, facilities, and aircraft maintenance.
FAA statistics indicate that a typical student has flown about 75 hours by the time he/she takes the Private Pilot flight test. The average student at Horizon Flight Center has approximately 40-58 hours of flight time before receiving a Private Pilot Certificate. Additionally, over the past two years we have achieved over a 90 percent pass rate on FAA check-rides and knowledge tests for all ratings.
We invite you to visit our facilities located at Chesapeake Regional Airport located off West Road in Chesapeake. Our flight school is open 7 days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Horizon Flight Center offers a special $99.00 introductory flight lesson, so why not call or stop by today and make an appointment? We look forward to providing you with quality flight training and serving you as a valued customer.
CESSNA PILOT CENTER ADVANTAGE
Cessna's reputation is second to none. With 80 years of aviation excellence, safety and progress Cessna is the worlds leader in general aviation. Choosing to train at a Cessna Pilot Center (CPC) is the best decision any student pilot can make. Cessna Pilot Centers are required to meet and maintain extremely high standards of operations in both safety and training.
Cessna Pilot Center advantages include:
Cessna's Computer Based Instruction (CBI) is aviation's only standardized integrated curriculum that delivers training consistently worldwide with Private, Instrument and Commercial courses available.
Exclusive access to the only computer-based student record management system that tracks progress of pilots every step of the way.
Instruction in new and well maintained Cessna Aircraft.
Faster completion times and higher success rates which saves money and produces better pilots.
Exclusive student loan programs that can make learning to fly affordable on a modest budget.
Up to 50 College Credit hours though Mountain State University
With all of the Cessna support behind each CPC, such as special aircraft financing and insurance, global marketing programs, field-based seminars, and training managers, its little wonder that more people have learned to fly at CPC's than anywhere else. Recently, an independent company rated the Cessna 172 and Cessna 182 the safest airplanes EVER constructed. Horizon Flight Center utilizes these aircraft in our training and are required as a Cessna Pilot Center to keep these aircraft within Cessna maintenance standards.
Horizon Flight Center is the ONLY Cessna Certified CPC within 100 miles of Chesapeake, VA.
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