The smarter, more affordable path to becoming a pilot, from first lesson to checkride day.
Checkride coming up? Find a DPEBook certified flight instructors
with aircraft ready to fly.
Tell us your goals. We'll lay out every FAA milestone and ACS task on the way to your checkride.
Find instructors by specialty, rating, availability, and aircraft. As easy as booking a haircut.
Every lesson comes with a plan and a recap. Switch instructors or aircraft anytime, on your schedule.
Certified flight instructors ready to help you reach your aviation goals.
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AviPrep tracks every FAA-listed Designated Pilot Examiner. DPEs on AviPrep are listed with contact info so you don't burn weeks pre-checkride.
From ground school to flight training, find the right instruction for your aviation goals
Your Path: a personalized plan from day one
Tell us your goal and home airport. We turn it into a personalized plan: cost per lesson, weekly cadence, months to checkride, and a top CFI match nearby. Pay as you go, lesson by lesson.
About 60 flight hours to checkride.
Around 10–12 months to checkride at 1 flight + 1 ground a week.
Four stages to your certificate
Run your own numbers
Pick a goal, an aircraft, and a pace. We'll estimate your total cost on AviPrep and your savings vs a typical local school.
Paid lesson by lesson over ~9–14 months. No package upfront.
Estimates based on national averages. Local rates and your pace vary the real number.
See the full breakdownAfter every lesson
Ground lessons turn into a clean AI recap within minutes. Flight lessons pull the real ADS-B track into an interactive 3D map: tap any point for speed, altitude, and climb rate, and filter by phase of flight. You and your CFI see exactly what happened.
Ground lessons
Ground Lesson 12 · Airspace + Weather
Key takeaways
Class B/C/D boundaries and VFR weather minimums, by airspace class.
Areas to improve
Review TFRs, special-use airspace, and chart symbology.
Next lesson focus
Lesson 13: cross-country planning. Bring a sectional for the KFXE area.
Flight lessons
Flight Lesson 8 · N172AV · 1.4 hrs
Flight path · 3D
0–2,950 ft
Why students finish on AviPrep
Most student pilots never finish. AOPA's Flight Training Experience research has put the dropout rate near 80%, often because life moves people away from their school before they earn the certificate.
On AviPrep your training is yours. Switching schools, cities, or CFIs never resets it: your hours, milestones, recap history, and ACS progress live in your account. Study tools and FAA references come free with every account.
Source: AOPA Flight Training Experience research.
Lessons
24
Hours
47.2
Milestones
9
Milestones
Included with every account, free
Why AviPrep
A milestone-gated path to your certificate, on your schedule and your budget. No upfront block, no being stuck with one CFI, and no progress lost when life moves you.
Typical flight school
Training on AviPrep
Insights on training smarter, spending less, and earning your wings faster
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