Aircraft Transition Training
Build confidence, competence, and sound judgment in an aircraft that is new to you.
Learn Your New Airplane With Confidence
Purchased a new airplane or transitioning into a make or model you have not flown before? Moving into an unfamiliar aircraft can be exciting, but becoming truly comfortable with its systems, handling characteristics, avionics, performance, and limitations takes more than simply meeting a regulatory requirement.
With experience flying more than two dozen makes and models of aircraft, I can help you become familiar with your new airplane while keeping safety, sound judgment, and real-world proficiency at the center of the training.
Transition training is tailored to your previous experience, the aircraft involved, and your goals. The objective is not simply to check boxes—it is to help you understand how the airplane behaves and develop the confidence to operate it safely and proficiently.
Areas We Can Cover
- Aircraft systems, limitations, and performance
- Avionics and automation proficiency
- Normal, short-field, and crosswind takeoffs and landings as appropriate
- Slow flight and aircraft handling characteristics
- Power-off and power-on stalls
- Emergency and abnormal procedures
- Checklist discipline and cockpit flows
- Weight and balance and performance planning
- Risk management and aeronautical decision-making
Built Around You and Your Aircraft
Transition needs vary significantly between pilots and aircraft. Training may also be tailored to satisfy applicable insurance-company requirements when those requirements are provided in advance.
Before the Flight
Review aircraft systems, limitations, performance, avionics, procedures, and the areas that differ most from aircraft you have previously flown.
In the Air
Develop aircraft-specific proficiency through normal operations, maneuvering, takeoffs and landings, and appropriately conducted abnormal or emergency scenarios.
Real-World Confidence
Apply aircraft knowledge to practical scenarios so you leave training better prepared to make safe decisions on your own.
Transitioning to a new aircraft?
Tell me what you're flying, your experience level, and what you want to accomplish.
DISCUSS TRANSITION TRAINING