Want Some Flying Lessons?
American Flying Adventures as one of the Florida's leading flight training centers has the path to your success. Our flight school offers a higher standard of pilot training for beginner and advanced pilots as well as dedicated Commercial Pilot Training for pilots seeking an aviation career. Safety is one of our main concern hence we focus on profound instruction and professional maintenance. If you are looking for friendly and professional Flight Instruction or if you wish to rent a functional aircraft for a pleasurable trip, American Flying Adventures is the right place for you!
If you've ever thought about learning to fly, but put it off for one reason or another, you may want to reconsider! Recent advances in aerodynamic researches, materials and electronics have led to more efficient and safer aircraft, as well as to more reliable engines, instruments and radios. Our staff is made up exclusively with professional flight instructors who are dedicated to the single purpose of providing you with quality flight training that will give you the skills necessary to fly safely for a lifetime. Feel free to call or visit us and schedule a discovery flight for only $ 59.--, find out more. | |
Our flight training is about results - ensuring you learn standard procedures to become a competent and safe pilot. Upon completion of our program, you will enjoy the certainty of knowing you have been trained to high quality standards in the industry by a highly skilled and friendly flight instructor and support team. We will soon realize that our prime goal is not to let you robotically memorize but to let you really understand what you study. Not only do we care for the individual progress of each student, we offer a stress free training atmosphere where you have no lack of fun and pleasure. Find out more. | |
American Flying Adventures Flight School has some of the best maintained and the best equipped rental aircraft of any operation. Currently our fleet includes new and late model Cessna 172 SP aircraft which are fully IFR equipped with the Garmin G1000 Integrated Avionics Suite, Cessna Turbo 182T, Piper Warrior, Lance and Senecas and much more. All aircraft are available for rental in the USA and to some destinations abroad. Many of our customers can tell you numerous exciting stories about their trips. Exploration, adventure and excitement are some of the involvements you will experience. Find out more | |
One unique thing of our operation is the way we present ourselves and the environment of aviation. Our web site is technologically advanced and offers helpful resources for students and renters. An Online Schedule makes booking an aircraft easy, Online Tutorials help you to study at any location and Online Widgets assist you in Flight Planning and Decision Making. Last but not least we offer a number of promotional movies which give you more insight into our operation. A new technology allows you to watch those high definition movies with full screen resolution even with modest bandwidth. Find out more |
Airport
Hotels in the vicinity of the St. Petersburg/ Clearwater International Airport (KPIE). |
Beach
Hotels Clearwater Beach, Indian Rocks Beach, St. Petersburg Beach and Madeira Beach. |
Apartments Usually available for long-term rentals of 3 months or longer |
Host
Families Local families offering room and board for young students |
Support
American Flying Adventures provides extended support for students and renter pilots. If you are from out of town and looking for the right place to stay, we have the answer for you. If you you need a decent breakfast, lunch or dinner we will direct you to the right place. Our in-depth coverage of the St. Petersburg/Clearwater airport and its FBOs might be another point you are interested in. We also offer a huge reference library to common aviation forms and handy links to the FAA and TSA websites.
Pricing
Block Rates, Discounts: Aircraft rentals and instruction fees can be paid when you finished your lesson on a daily basis. As an alternative, you can also pay some money in advance and take advantage of discounted rates, or Block Rates. Following Block rate discounts are available:
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SILVER -> $ 1000.-- initial payment
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GOLD -> $ 2000.-- initial payment
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PLATINUM -> $ 4000.-- initial payment
Once assigned to a block rate category, you can use it for any aircraft or instruction. Once your block rate money is used up you can pay whatever amount you feel comfortable to keep the account in the positive.
Sales Tax: 7% Florida Sales Tax applies for all rentals. Exempt are only instructional flights where an instructor is on board. The only exceptions are Solo Flights during the Private Pilot Course.
Fuel Surcharge: Due to the high fuel prices at our airport we charge a
fuel surcharge for all aircraft wet rentals. Fuel surcharge does not apply for
the portion of flight where external fuel is being purchased by the renter
pilot. In this case we will reimburse your fuel ticked according to our board
fuel credit information. Fuel surcharge is updated every month or whenever the
fuel price makes a significant change. Visit our online Forum to find out about
the most current Fuel Surcharges.
Method of Payment: We accept US personnel or company checks, Credit Cards
(Visa, Master, Discover, Diners, AMEX), Bank Wires (for amounts higher than $
5000) and cash.
Financing: We have some financing available. One option is
Pilot Finance. Call us or write us an
e-mail for more information.
Movies and Photos
The steady growth and sophistication of computers and their applications, the
development of the finest digital cameras and sound recording equipment have
definitely ushered a new area in the Audio Visual (AV) world. American Flying
Adventures takes advantage of the new technologies as well as the growing
importance and capacity of the Internet.
Photo Galleries
We offer animated photo galleries about various topics such as events, trips
and other occasions. Feel free to make your own digital pictures and send us the
pictures. We want you to be involved in our audio-visual creation.
Movies
We are directly involved in the technical part of shooting, sound recording
and editing in various applications, such as tutorials, live event recording,
success stories, introduction of new aircraft and more. Our production includes
4 different categories:
The first one are short movies which are shot but no big editing work has been
added. Those movies are more documentary, covering spontaneous moments with no
script and contain mainly success stories of our course completions. Visit our
online forum to watch these movies.
The second genre are recordings of live events such as air-shows, exhibitions,
trips and other events. Those movies are also documentary and include moderate
editing.
The third category are tutorials of various
topics based on a more elaborate script, storyboard and require more special
effects and editing than the first two categories.
Number four are promotional movies which also might include a story or some
feature film episodes. They are more thoroughly planned and are part of a higher
complexity level.
All movies are encoded for Internet streaming. We are using different
codec and delivery formats, such as Flash, Windows Media and QuickTime.
Streaming speeds vary between 400Kbps and 5000Kbps. Most newer movies are shot
in high definition with a 1080i camera. The web streaming version is
down-converted to a lower frame size.
Be aware that your Internet connection might be to slow to watch the movie instantly. Allow adequate buffering in such a case.