Visceral Flight Training Experience

Master Flight

Elevate your skills with our exclusive L-39 Albatros training program. Tailored for discerning aviators who demand nothing less than excellence.

As low as $3495 / hr

Best Price,
Best Jets

Our professional instructors and unmodified L-39s with hot ejection seats offer the purest experience in a classic jet and everything they have to teach you.

All students must have at least a private pilot certificate with single engine land rating. Type rating requires 1000 hours total time.

Upset

Upset Prevention & Recovery

Nothing simulates an upset in a turbine aircraft like an upset in a turbine aircraft. See first-hand how quickly an easily recoverable situation can unravel without appropriate control inputs -- at up to 490 KIAS and 30,000 FPM.

Totally Different Acro

L-39 Aerobatics

Flying a high performance jet is unlike any piston aerobatic airplane. Our instructors are there not just to help you perfect maneuvering flight, but also to make sure you don't shoot right through 18,000 feet.

100% Pass Rate

Type Rating

Explore type transition to the L-39 through a full type rating in about 3-4 hours with previous turbine experience. And a DPE on site. In the most beautiful place.

Better Than Sex

Jet Formation

The most fun you can ever have in an airplane -- and simultaneously the closest realtime look at the effect of stick and rudder inputs. See what the airplane does in flight with reference points 20 feet away. While diving through mountain valleys. Our FAA-recognized professional military and civilian airshow pilots will teach you the most disciplined and rewarding facet of flying, along with what makes doing it in a jet so uniquely challenging.

A Lot of Airplane

Not Just Any Jet

Unlike smaller fighter trainers (that can also be impossible to bail out of), the L-39 is 10,000 lbs of large, underpowered raw jet with a 10-12 second spool up that will take your energy management understanding to a whole new level.

Instructors

Matt Guthmiller

An ATP & CFII with experience in more than 50 types of aircraft, Matt developed our FAA-approved training programs and several others. He has flown the L-39 in airshows and even raced one at Reno, flying 400 knots at 50' while pulling -4 to +8 Gs in tight formation. Matt holds FFI airshow formation and Reno Racing Jets cards, has set two world records, and taught formation and L-39 flying to dozens of students.

Mark Ryan

A Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force and Boeing 777 airline pilot, Mark has tens of thousands of hours flying everything from the supersonic T-38 and MiG-23 to the C-17 and everything in between. He brings experience from nearly every facet of aviation, and enjoys sharing it, particularly while inverted in beautiful places.

Mountain Flying Of a Different Kind

Training available at Alpine, WY (46U) and Salt Lake City, UT year-round. Limited availability at Oshkosh and other jet events.

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