Blue Ridge Sport Flight

Champ

Blue Ridge Sport Flight LLC

Johnson Field - Located next to 0A7 Hendersonville Airport

419 Bradshaw Ave.

Hendersonville, North Carolina 28792

Phone and Text - (828) 460-3646 or email: smokiescfi1@gmail.com

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Located at the Western North Carolina Air Museum Airport, Johnson Field, right next door to the Hendersonville Airport. Click here for directions, or use GPS to go to 419 Bradshaw Ave.

Pay by the hour, or take advantage of a complete accelerated package.

Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Instrument, Multi-Engine, and Tailwheel Training

5 Hour Tailwheel endorsement and flight review - $595

Accelerated Sport Pilot Course - 9 Days - $3495 complete

Accelerated Private Pilot Course - 14 Days - $6295 complete

Accelerated Instrument Pilot Course - 9 Days - $5995 complete

Combined Private and Instrument Course - 90 hours - 3 weeks - $12,890

Aeronca 7AC equipped with Garmin 396 GPS, Radio, Intercom, and headsets - $80 per hour

Cessna 172 with Garmin GNS430W GPS, Synthetic Vision, Electronic Geo Referenced Charts, and XM Weather - $105 per hour

FAA Gold Seal Master Flight Instructor Greg Collins, ATP, CSES, CFI, CFII, MEI, A&P IA - $40 per hour

Over 8000 hours of instruction given, with a 95% first time pass rate. Dozens and dozens of local references available. When you select an instructor, ask the instructor how many successful checkrides he or she has signed off in the last 6 months. Is your instructor full time and available 7 days a week to meet your schedule? Speak to the instructor's former students and verify how many hours they finished with and how they feel about the training they received. My Sport students typically finish with 25 hours including the checkride, and I rarely have a Private student exceed 50 hours. The FAA minimums are quite possible with a highly experienced instructor.

I am an independent instructor and will gladly work with aircraft owner's at any area airport - Asheville, Hendersonville, Rutherfordton, Brevard, Transylvania, Greenville, Spartanburg, Jackson and Pickens County.

1/2 hour Discovery Flight Lesson - $80. You take the controls as we fly from Hendersonville, across World's Edge, to Lake Lure and past Chimney Rock, before returning to Hendersonville to land on Johnson Field.

Complete Sport Pilot - $3495

Includes 25 hours aircraft rental, all flight instruction, Sport Pilot Student Certificate, written test fee, and Flight Test.

Complete Private Pilot - $6295

Includes 43 hours aircraft rental, all instruction, ground materials, written and practical test fees.

Advanced Instrument Training - Garmin GNS430W equipped C-172

Complete Instrument Rating - $5995

Learn precision WAAS enabled GPS approaches, holding, and tracking procedures.

Try to find as nicely equipped and maintained a Cessna as ours for only $105 per hour! Everything works, no inop stickers, no ancient radios. Garmin 796 GPS with XM weather, recent paint and interior, 160 hp, lamb's wool seats, 4 place intercom and Bose headsets.

Instruction, my airplanes or yours - $45 per hour.

450hp PT-17 Stearman Sightseeing Rides starting at $100

YouTube Video of the Cessna Avionics YouTube Video of the Aeronca

Watch a Discovery Flight in the Champ

Aircraft Maintenance and Repair. Annual Inspections, Condition Inspections, Pre-Buys.

$40 Shop Rate

GNS430W From this Avidyne to this Dash

we've got it.

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The best deal in flight training, with Hendersonville's most experienced instructor. 1194 hours of instruction given in 2011 flying out of Johnson Field Airport!

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Learn to fly with a dedicated, professional instructor.

NAFI Master Instructors go through a rigorous peer review every 2 years to ensure that the Master is meeting the very highest standards in the industry.

Sport Pilot training is the least expensive, fastest, and most fun way to get started in aviation, and there is no need to maintain an FAA medical certificate.

The Aeronca Champ is one of the best trainers ever built, with thousands still flying. You will learn true stick and rudder skills that will make you the best pilot you can be.

Sport Pilot training is almost half the cost of a Private Pilot license. No medical is required. All training and flight time counts toward the FAA Private Pilot certificate, if you decide to move on later.

The Champ is available for solo rental, flight reviews, and for sight seeing rides.

Flight Review - $150, includes required flight and ground time, no need to be tailwheel endorsed, or to have a medical.

I take Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express

Financing is available through Pilot Finance

Blue Ridge Sport Flight requires that all SOLO Champ renters carry "Non-owned Aircraft Insurance" at all times. Renter's insurance is NOT required when you are receiving instruction in the Champ. This insurance is very affordable, generally less than $1 per day, and readily available through Avemco, AOPA, and EAA. We can help arrange the insurance.