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Discovery Flight

Take a Discovery Flight

A Discovery Flight at Core Aviator Training is a real first flying lesson, not a sightseeing tour. There is a pre-flight briefing, then you fly the Piper Cherokee 140 over the Southwest Florida coast from the pilot’s seat, with a Certified Flight Instructor beside you the whole time. You take the controls. The instructor is there to keep it safe, not to fly it for you. It costs $175, you get an official logbook entry that counts toward your license, and nothing after it is committed.

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Price
$175
Time
About an hour
It counts
Logged
first entry in your logbook
Requirements
None
no experience, no medical
Your instructor
Cristian Duran

Claim your seat

$175

Pay online. We schedule you.

Claim your seat now and Cristian will contact you within four hours with two times that work — reply with the one you want and you’re on the schedule.

  • Reschedule free — your seat moves with you
  • Weather scrub? You rebook first, ahead of the line
  • Transferable — give it to anyone, any time
  • It never expires

Your seat can move. It can’t vanish.

Pay & claim your seat — $175 Call 239-722-6751

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Everyone’s nervous.

The first-timer in the parking lot right now is nervous. The airline captain was nervous on her first lesson too.

Your instructor’s hands are on the controls with yours — they never leave.

Nervous means you’re paying attention. Good. Pilots pay attention.

Your first takeoff

Nobody forgets their first takeoff.
Yours is about ten minutes in.

  1. Hold short Your instructor runs the checklist out loud. Nothing is skipped.
  2. Throttle Throttle forward — the runway blurs.
  3. 55 knots Around 55 knots, you pull back. Gently. That’s all it takes.
  4. Liftoff The ground lets go of you.
  5. 500 feet Most people are grinning before 500 feet. You’ll see.
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The left seat is the pilot’s seat. It’s yours.

Before you fly

The pre-takeoff checklist.

Every item self-checks. There is nothing to prepare and nothing to prove.

Discovery Flight · all items checked

  • Experience None needed. That’s the point of this flight.
  • Medical Not required for a discovery flight.
  • Nerves Normal. Expected. Handled.
  • Weather Your instructor’s call — if it’s not right, you reschedule.
  • Camera Bring it. The view is yours to keep.
What to expect

Your Discovery Flight, step by step

  1. Before you fly

    You start on the ground with a genuine pre-flight brief: how the airplane flies, what each control does, and exactly what the two of you are going to do once the propeller turns. Then you walk out and pre-flight the Cherokee 140 together.

  2. In the air

    You are in the left seat with your hands on the yoke, flying out over the Southwest Florida coast with your instructor beside you on a full set of dual controls. Climbs, turns, level flight — you do the flying.

  3. Back on the ramp

    You shut down and debrief: what went well, what surprised you, and what a real training plan would look like from here. You leave with an official logbook entry that counts toward your 40 hours — and no obligation to book anything else.

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The flight instructor shaking hands with a student pilot in front of a Core Aviator Training backdrop

Core Aviator Training · Discovery Flight

$175

No experience needed · you take the controls

Fort Myers, Florida (Southwest Florida)

Good to know

A real introduction — not a joyride

A Discovery Flight is designed to help you experience the aircraft, the instructor, and the training environment before committing to a larger plan. If you decide flying is for you, it's also how you judge us — the airplane, the instructor, and whether our approach fits how you want to learn.

Discovery Flight questions

Is the $175 Discovery Flight a lesson or a sightseeing trip?
A lesson. You get a real pre-flight briefing, you fly from the left seat with your hands on the yoke, and it ends with a logbook entry signed by your instructor that counts toward the 40 hours the FAA requires.
What should I bring, and what should I wear?
Photo ID, sunglasses, and shoes you can walk on a ramp in. Everything else — headset, charts, aircraft — is here. Leave time either side of the flight for the brief and the debrief.
How much of the flying will I actually do?
As much as you want to. Your instructor handles the takeoff and landing on a first flight; the climb, the cruise and the turns over the coast are yours.
What if the weather is bad on the day?
We move it, at no cost. Southwest Florida gives us 300 or more flyable days a year, so a scrubbed morning is usually a rebooked afternoon rather than a lost week.
Am I committing to anything by booking one?
No. It is one flight, paid once. There is no package to sign and no expectation that you book a second lesson before you have decided you want to.

Your first flight is one call away

Book online or call 239-722-6751. One flight, one instructor — nothing to commit to.

Book a Discovery Flight — $175 Speak to an advisor

or call 239-722-6751

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Serving Cape Coral · Naples · Estero · Punta Gorda · Bonita Springs · Fort Myers Beach · Lehigh Acres · Immokalee

Book a Discovery Flight — $175 Speak to an advisor