The most flying you can afford in the Brazos Valley.

If you are learning to fly

You do not need a certificate, and you do not need to have touched an airplane. Plenty of our members started their training right here, and our instructors will take you from your first lesson to your checkride.

What is different is the money. At a flight school you rent by the hour, and every hour carries the school’s overhead and profit. Here you fly at cost in a club you are a member of, and you learn in the same two airplanes every time. No rotating through a dozen tired trainers, no waking up to find your reservation bumped for a discovery flight. If the buy-in is what is standing between you and starting, look at Student Membership: no buy-in, reduced dues, and you fly at member rates until you solo.

The goal is not to sell you hours. It is to turn you into a pilot who sticks around, and a lot of us did exactly that.

If you already have your certificate

You know the real problem with staying current. It costs too much to fly enough to stay sharp, and owning your own airplane is a five or six figure decision with a hangar bill attached.

This is the middle path. For a one-time $500 share and $100 a month you get keys to two well-kept 172s at a rate below renting the same airplane wet at a school, and nothing like the cost of owning one. Fly three hours a month to stay current, or a hundred hours a year chasing $100 hamburgers and cross-countries. The more you fly, the less each hour effectively costs, because the dues that cover fixed costs get spread across more flying.

And you can actually use the airplanes the way you would use your own. Take one for a long weekend. File IFR in N60HF. Build cheap time in the ’59. Nobody is making you bring it back by 5 p.m. so it can go back on the rental line.