Check our Flight Plans Page for Gift Week Events!
The Ladies only Aviation boot camp or boost camp.
Looking for that networking group of ladies that isn't just about story time or looking for that group that actually flies! this might be the new group for you. Connect with ladies like you hoping for help in progressing in their flight training, meeting others and hearing your not the only one dealing with certain issues! Flying with new ladies and instructors and growing as a pilot even before your licensed! we are not just another membership group in hopes for scholarship and mentoring along the way, we provide flying when available! ( I mean we can't help when mother nature is a bully).
We don't have scholarships or membership requirements even!
Looking for that networking group of ladies that isn't just about story time or looking for that group that actually flies! this might be the new group for you. Connect with ladies like you hoping for help in progressing in their flight training, meeting others and hearing your not the only one dealing with certain issues! Flying with new ladies and instructors and growing as a pilot even before your licensed! we are not just another membership group in hopes for scholarship and mentoring along the way, we provide flying when available! ( I mean we can't help when mother nature is a bully).
We don't have scholarships or membership requirements even!
Check out our Tips page!
You will find free PDF downloads for Private Pilot, Instrument pilot, checklists, forms that can be useful all for free! Also Links and articles you may enjoy!
What we do!
Click this link to learn more about GIFT: youtu.be/2YMC0gw0iNk
Checkout our youtube channel also!
We teach flying and who doesn't want that superpower! Wonder Woman had an invisible jet...and you know your a Wonder Woman in the making....still waiting on the delivery of the jets.
Who We Are
We are a immersive or intensive flight training event called GIFT week. Many women just feel like they are the only one at the airport. At our regular flight school its not uncommon to have more women than men in flight training. Imagine spending a week just focused on flight and ground training and with an all female group! Our goal at the Gift events is to identify and to address the various issues that may have been causing women to abandon flight training, and to assist them overcoming those obstacles. While we can do little about universal issues like money and time, though we can make that money stretch a little farther and there are less distractions when here in the middle of nowhere to keep you from wasting time. (no museums and night clubs or shopping centers) we educate, and motivate more women to their goals. We do help those with scholarships get the most training for their money and often in less time.
We also are for those women who may not pursue a license, but wish to overcome those fears without feeling patronized or belittled. There is no dumb question in our classroom or airplane.
Opportunities Offered
We even provide assistance if you are buying a plane or need upgrade training in the family plane or job searching and/or time building.
GIFT WEEK is a 'Women Only' event that provides the opportunity for women in any phase of their flight training to come together to further motivate their aviation training. We saw a need to reach out to women interested in learning about flying or continuing that have felt either intimidated, fearful, frustrated and even the factor of being the only female in the room at a flight school. This week long clinic is to address these issues and further women in their aviation endeavors. Check out our Flight Plan page for GIFT week Details!
If you can't make a GIFT week, come see us when you are able to take time, or perhaps you need more than just the boost that one week gives, as in the chance to focus only on your studies and flying to finish your license, or time to undo bad training and learn what to look for in your future instructors even. It is our end goal to have other flight schools create their own GIFT events across the country. You may pay the standard rates but then the housing is extra cheap rest of the year. We hope to create a network of peers, mentors, role models, and instructors to encourage women of all ages to pursue their goals in aviation and to overcome the obstacles that interfere with their flight training. The guys are welcome to come during the non event flight training times. Great chance for that spouse or nephew/son etc to tag along and also get some top notch training that will carry forth to any school they may later attend if they don't finish in Vernon area.
Please visit our Donation page and support our efforts in making our program more successful.
Rates & Fees at Vernon Location Only!
(non event pricing)
Normal rates for primary training Aircraft.
Gift Girls - $65 per hour dry (no fuel)
Men - $70 per hour dry
Instructor fee - $50 per hour
Airport house is first come first serve during regular flight training, It is reserved for the Volunteers during Gift week.
Other aircraft like Tailwheel or complex, multi engine etc have other rates and availability. call for more info.
Checkout our youtube channel also!
We teach flying and who doesn't want that superpower! Wonder Woman had an invisible jet...and you know your a Wonder Woman in the making....still waiting on the delivery of the jets.
Who We Are
We are a immersive or intensive flight training event called GIFT week. Many women just feel like they are the only one at the airport. At our regular flight school its not uncommon to have more women than men in flight training. Imagine spending a week just focused on flight and ground training and with an all female group! Our goal at the Gift events is to identify and to address the various issues that may have been causing women to abandon flight training, and to assist them overcoming those obstacles. While we can do little about universal issues like money and time, though we can make that money stretch a little farther and there are less distractions when here in the middle of nowhere to keep you from wasting time. (no museums and night clubs or shopping centers) we educate, and motivate more women to their goals. We do help those with scholarships get the most training for their money and often in less time.
We also are for those women who may not pursue a license, but wish to overcome those fears without feeling patronized or belittled. There is no dumb question in our classroom or airplane.
Opportunities Offered
We even provide assistance if you are buying a plane or need upgrade training in the family plane or job searching and/or time building.
GIFT WEEK is a 'Women Only' event that provides the opportunity for women in any phase of their flight training to come together to further motivate their aviation training. We saw a need to reach out to women interested in learning about flying or continuing that have felt either intimidated, fearful, frustrated and even the factor of being the only female in the room at a flight school. This week long clinic is to address these issues and further women in their aviation endeavors. Check out our Flight Plan page for GIFT week Details!
If you can't make a GIFT week, come see us when you are able to take time, or perhaps you need more than just the boost that one week gives, as in the chance to focus only on your studies and flying to finish your license, or time to undo bad training and learn what to look for in your future instructors even. It is our end goal to have other flight schools create their own GIFT events across the country. You may pay the standard rates but then the housing is extra cheap rest of the year. We hope to create a network of peers, mentors, role models, and instructors to encourage women of all ages to pursue their goals in aviation and to overcome the obstacles that interfere with their flight training. The guys are welcome to come during the non event flight training times. Great chance for that spouse or nephew/son etc to tag along and also get some top notch training that will carry forth to any school they may later attend if they don't finish in Vernon area.
Please visit our Donation page and support our efforts in making our program more successful.
Rates & Fees at Vernon Location Only!
(non event pricing)
Normal rates for primary training Aircraft.
Gift Girls - $65 per hour dry (no fuel)
Men - $70 per hour dry
Instructor fee - $50 per hour
Airport house is first come first serve during regular flight training, It is reserved for the Volunteers during Gift week.
Other aircraft like Tailwheel or complex, multi engine etc have other rates and availability. call for more info.
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