Flight training in Lakeland, first lesson to CFI.
Instruction from your first lesson to your checkride, with a real brief and a real debrief every time.
- Home field
- KLAL · towered Lakeland Linder
- Aircraft
- 6 aircraft
- Programs
- Six, all one-on-one
N13129 · over Central Florida Six programs, one standard.
All taught one-on-one. The FAA sequence runs Private, then Instrument, then Commercial, then CFI.
01 Private Pilot License Your gateway to the skies: fly single-engine aircraft anywhere, day or night. This is where most students begin.
Structured Part 61 training on the Gleim Private Pilot syllabus, with 20 hours of focused one-on-one ground school with senior instructors.
You master preflight, steep turns, slow flight, stalls, cross-country navigation, night operations and emergency landings, usually in a Cessna 152, 150 or 172. Estimated at $9,725 at FAA minimums (40 flight hours, 20 ground hours), paid as you go.
Start with a Discovery Flight: $99 in a two-seat trainer, $119 in a four-seat.
02 Instrument Rating (IFR) Fly in the clouds. The rating that makes you a safer, more capable pilot in real Florida weather.
Trained in our IFR Cessna 172 (N13129), following the Gleim syllabus.
You master precision and non-precision approaches, holding patterns, ATC clearances, scan technique and partial-panel flying in KLAL's towered airspace.
Estimated at $11,335 at FAA minimums (40 flight hours, 15 ground hours).
03 Commercial Pilot License (CPL) Get paid to fly. The certificate that opens a professional flying career.
Flown in our Cessna 172s (N13129 or N4382Q), with timebuilding in the economical Cessna 150.
You perfect chandelles, lazy eights, eights-on-pylons, steep spirals and power-off 180° accuracy landings.
Estimated at $6,775 at FAA minimums (20 flight hours, 15 ground hours). Our Career Pilot track takes you from zero to Commercial and CFI with a dedicated instructor.
04 Flight Instructor (CFI/CFII) Build hours and teach. Becoming a CFI is the fast track to 1,500 airline hours.
CFI: estimated at $5,760 at FAA minimums (15 flight hours, 25 ground hours).
CFII, teaching in the clouds: estimated at $3,575 (10 flight hours, 15 ground hours).
Spin training, a CFI prerequisite, is available in-house in our Cessna 172s.
Alongside every rating
Sport Pilot
A lighter path into the air, flown in our modern 2023 Texas Aircraft COLT with a Garmin glass display.
Endorsements & Add-ons
Tailwheel and spin training for real stick-and-rudder mastery.
Training built around you
A Private Pilot License at Legends is estimated at $9,725 at FAA minimums, paid lesson by lesson; how often you fly is the biggest factor in the final number.
We recommend booking 2 to 3 flight lessons per week.
Brief
A real pre-flight brief: what you’ll fly today, and why.
Fly
Your time in the air over Central Florida.
Debrief
What happened, what went well, and what the next lesson sets up.
One instructor, paired to you. You are matched with an instructor for your goals and pace, and you fly with them through your training instead of whoever is free that day.
N13129 · on the ramp at Lakeland Linder Not sure where to start?
Call us and we'll talk it through — where you are, where you want to go, and what it takes to get there, numbers included.
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