Learn to fly in the airplane
you’ll own.
Private pilot training in the SR20 and SR22 from your very first lesson. No experience needed to begin — only the intention to fly it yourself.
No experience needed. Your first flight is in the Cirrus itself — one flight, one instructor, nothing to commit to.
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The numbers we fly by.
You’ll learn to fly by your instruments. These are ours.
A Discovery Flight in the Cirrus
An hour in the Cirrus with an instructor beside you. You take the controls in the air, you fly the airplane, and you land knowing whether this is for you.
Daniel Reyes
CSIP · CFII · 2,400 hours
You’ll fly with a person, not a company.
- :01Before you fly — A walk around the SR, the checklist out loud.
- :02In the air — Your hands on the stick, the instructor beside you.
- :03Back on the ramp — A debrief, a logbook entry, and no pitch.
Learn in the airplane you’ll own.
Nobody trains in a Cirrus to save money. You do it because this is the airplane you will put your family in, and because every hour you spend learning in it is an hour in type.
The parachute is standard.
Every Cirrus ever built carries CAPS, a parachute for the whole airplane. One handle, and the airplane comes down under canopy with everyone in it. That is the first thing a spouse asks about, and the first thing we answer.
Built around a working life.
Lessons are one-on-one and scheduled around your business, not ours. Two or three flights a week gets most owner-pilots to the private certificate in a handful of months, with the ground work done online between them.
Instructors who fly the Cirrus every day.
Your instructor flies the SR for a living and teaches it the way the factory teaches it: its systems, its avionics, its procedures, so that nothing about the airplane surprises you on the day you own one.
The school you keep after you buy.
When the day comes, we fly the transition with you, meet your insurer’s requirements, and stay your school for every recurrent check after. Most of our students own a Cirrus within a couple of years of their first flight.
If it ever goes wrong, one handle.
Every Cirrus ever built carries CAPS, a parachute for the whole airplane. Pull the handle and the airplane comes down under canopy with everyone in it. No other school can show you this picture, because no other airplane builds it in.
More than 250 people brought home under CAPS — the live count is read and dated at go-live.
Your instructor briefs the handle on your first flight. It answers the question your family will ask.
“I bought the airplane six months after my first lesson here. Daniel flew the transition with me and I never felt behind it.”
Every rating is a higher altitude.
Start with a Discovery Flight. Every rating after it is flown from the one before — in the same airplane you’ll fly when the training is done.
- 01 · Private PilotStart here Private Pilot Certificate
- 02 · Instrument Rating Instrument Rating (IFR)
- 03 · Transition Cirrus Transition Training
- 04 · Recurrent Advanced Transition & Recurrent
- 05 · Commercial Commercial Pilot Certificate
- 06 · Endorsements Endorsements & Add-ons
Every Cirrus on the line carries CAPS.
You train in the airplane you will own: the same cabin, the same panel, the same parachute. Two SR22 G6s and three SR20 G6s, every one on Perspective+.
- CAPS on every airplane
- Garmin Perspective avionics
- A cabin built like a car’s
- G6 airframes, Perspective+ throughout
N221PC 
N202PC 
N223PC The airplane, up close.
Six things a Cirrus pilot knows about this airplane. Touch any of them.
Built to go somewhere.
The SR22 cruises at 180 knots: two cities before lunch and home for dinner. The SR20 trains at a gentler pace with the same cabin and the same parachute.
The panel you’ll keep.
Garmin Perspective: two large screens, synthetic vision, an autopilot and envelope protection. You learn on the panel you will own, so the day you buy one it is already familiar.
Built like a car, not a cockpit.
Wide seats, a quiet cabin, a door on each side, climate control. Passengers arrive rested, which is the difference between an airplane you fly and an airplane your family flies in.
A parachute for the whole airplane.
Standard on every Cirrus ever built. Pull one handle and the airplane comes down under canopy with everyone in it. It is the reason a spouse says yes.
Spin resistance, designed in.
A cuffed wing developed with NASA: the inboard section stalls first and the ailerons keep working. Stability and protection are built into the airframe, not trained around.
An hour here is an hour in type.
You train in the airplane you will own from the first lesson. Its systems, its procedures and its habits are yours before the day you sign for one.
Common first questions
The questions every first-time student asks before they book.
01 Do I need any previous experience to start?
No. Most of our students have never touched an airplane before their first flight. You need to be sixteen to solo, hold a driver’s licence, and want to fly it yourself.
02 What happens on a Discovery Flight in a Cirrus?
You fly the SR yourself, with an instructor beside you the whole time. About an hour, the controls are yours in the air, and it counts toward your certificate. It is the first lesson, whether the goal is a certificate or an airplane of your own.
03 Is it safe?
Yes. Every Cirrus carries CAPS, a parachute for the whole airplane, and your instructor has a full set of controls. We cancel for weather without apology. Our airplanes are maintained in our own hangar by factory-trained technicians.
04 Why learn to fly in a Cirrus instead of a basic trainer?
Because it is the airplane you will fly afterwards. Every hour in the SR is an hour in type: the parachute, the panel and the procedures are already yours on the day you own one. It costs more per hour than a basic trainer, and nobody here pretends otherwise.
05 How do I get started?
Book a Discovery Flight. It is a real first lesson in the Cirrus with an instructor beside you, it counts toward your certificate, and it tells you in an hour whether this is for you.
Morning — N221PC is fueled and on the ramp. Winds are calm. See you at 9:00. — Daniel
This field was dark when you left it.
Ready to fly the Cirrus?
Book a Discovery Flight, or call first — an instructor answers, and five minutes is usually enough to know.