From your first lesson to your next flight, AviPrep helps you find instructors, book aircraft, and keep your training on track.
From first lesson to checkride day
Everything you need to become a pilot.
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.
Now on iPhone & Android
Your training plan, lessons, and instructor messages in your pocket. Free on the App Store and Google Play.
Certified flight instructors ready to help you reach your aviation goals.
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Ready for your checkride?
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
The Aircraft Network
Planes from owners, clubs, and schools, with scheduling, approvals, and payment handled end to end. Train in them, teach in them, rent them, or list your own.
Fly real owner-listed aircraft during training, then keep renting after your checkride. Earn your PPL and aircraft rental unlocks forever.
No plane? Get approved on aircraft near you and book them for lessons or your own flying, straight from your dashboard.
Your aircraft on autopilot. We bring the renters, run the schedule, track maintenance, and pay you after every flight.
Your Path: a personalized plan from day one
Tell us your goal and home airport. You get months to checkride at your pace, the cost per lesson, and a top CFI nearby. Pay after each lesson, no loan or package, and change pace any month.
See your plan2–3 monthsto checkride
About $1,450 a week at this pace, or as low as $275 a week on weekends. Same $15,825 total at every pace.
Four stages to your certificate
Run your own numbers
Pick a goal, an aircraft, and a pace. Headed for the airlines? Choose the PPL → CFI goal.
$270 per flight lesson · $45 per ground lesson
About $1,450 a week ($6,350 a month) at this pace, or as low as $275 a week on weekends.
Median rates listed by CFIs and aircraft on AviPrep, September 2026. Your CFI, aircraft, and hours set the real number. Pay after each lesson.
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 with instructors and aircraft from independent CFIs, owners, clubs, and partner schools. Train on your schedule and your budget.
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