Flight Training in Broward County | My Flight Time — Fort Lauderdale
Centrally located in Broward County at KFXE • 300+ VFR days/year • 12hrs/day, 7 days/week
Flight Training Near Broward County
My Flight Time is Broward County's most comprehensive flight training facility, located at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE). We serve pilots from Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Hollywood, Deerfield Beach, Plantation, Sunrise, Davie, and all Broward County communities.
Why Broward County Pilots Choose MFT
As a county-level page, this serves the broader Broward market. KFXE is centrally located within Broward County, making MFT accessible to virtually every community in the county within a 20–30 minute drive. Broward's 2 million+ population and proximity to multiple airports make it one of the strongest flight training markets in Florida.
Programs Available
Full program range: PPL ($11,750), IR ($11,500), CPL ($3,125–$10,250), CFI ($4,250), foreign license conversion ($17,500), time building from $60/hr. Open 12hrs/day, 7 days/week.
300+ VFR days. South Florida's climate advantage means virtually no training interruptions year-round.
Getting to KFXE from Broward County
KFXE sits near the geographic centre of Broward County, so almost every community in the county is inside a thirty-minute drive: ten minutes from Pompano Beach and Oakland Park, fifteen from Fort Lauderdale and Plantation, twenty from Sunrise, Davie and Deerfield Beach, and twenty-five from Coral Springs, Weston and Miramar. Tri-Rail's Cypress Creek station is a short rideshare from the hangar.
How Broward County Students Schedule Training
Because the county is our home market, we hold the widest scheduling window here — the field operation runs twelve hours a day, seven days a week, which means shift workers, students and career changers can all find repeatable slots. Full-time students fly daily and finish the Private Pilot certificate in four to six weeks; part-time students on two lessons per week generally finish in four to five months.
Local Airports and Routes Broward County Pilots Fly
Broward gives students an unusually dense set of training airports inside a twenty-mile radius: KFXE as home base, KPMP and KBCT for non-towered and light-tower work, KFLL for Class C arrivals alongside airline traffic, and KHWO for high-density traffic scanning. Add Miami Approach to the south and Palm Beach to the north and students can practise every airspace class the FAA tests without a single long ferry flight.
What Broward County Pilots Get at MFT
Central Broward location — most of the county within 30 minutes
Open 12 hours a day, seven days a week
Five distinct training airports inside a 20-mile radius
Full-time and part-time tracks with the same instructors
Flight Training Services for Broward County Pilots
As Broward County's home-field school we serve students from Fort Lauderdale to Coral Springs, Davie to Deerfield Beach. Here is what each program includes and how county residents typically schedule it.
Private Pilot License — $11,750
The private certificate is the entry point for most Broward residents and runs four to six weeks accelerated or four to five months at two or three lessons a week. The price covers aircraft, instructor time and ground instruction through the checkride; you supply headset, medical and FAA written fee. Because KFXE is central to the county, no Broward community is more than about 35 minutes out, which makes the part-time route realistic almost everywhere. Pattern work uses KFXE and KPMP, and checkrides are conducted locally with area examiners.
Instrument Rating — $11,500
Broward is unusually well suited to instrument training: five airports across three airspace classes sit within a short leg of one another, so a single lesson can cover an ILS, an RNAV approach and a Class C arrival. Most county students finish in six to eight weeks part time. Summer convective weather and the winter marine layer supply genuine IFR days, and we schedule around them intentionally so you build actual instrument time rather than only simulated.
Commercial Pilot — $3,125 single-engine, $10,250 multi-engine
Commercial single-engine at $3,125 assumes prerequisite hours and instrument privileges and covers the precision maneuvers and tolerances required at the commercial level. Multi-engine at $10,250 adds Seneca or Duchess time with engine-out procedures. Broward residents have the shortest commute of anyone in our student base, which makes the two-lessons-per-day schedule the commercial phase rewards genuinely practical rather than theoretical.
CFI and CFII — $4,250
Broward's flight training market is one of the largest in the country, which means local CFI graduates have real employment options — including with us. The course covers the fundamentals of instruction, right-seat proficiency, lesson planning and the CFI oral, with CFII included so you can teach instrument students. Year-round VFR weather means a Broward CFI logs more hours per month than instructors in seasonal markets, which is what shortens the road to 1,500 hours.
Time Building — $100/hr down to $60/hr wet
Single-engine time building runs $100/hr casual, $90/hr at 10 hours, $85/hr at 50, $80/hr at 100, $78/hr at 200, $76/hr at 300, and $60/hr on a 1,500-hour block; multi-engine mirrors the structure from $210/hr to $160/hr. Broward pilots have the advantage of short-notice releases: when an aircraft frees up, you can be at the ramp before the slot is lost. Blocks are flown solo, with a safety pilot, or split between two pilots both logging cross-country.
Every rate above is published on our pricing page and the aircraft are listed on the fleet page.
Cost and Timeline for Broward County Students
Broward County residents get the shortest path to a certificate of anyone in South Florida, and the published prices apply countywide: Private Pilot $11,750, Instrument Rating $11,500, Commercial Single $3,125, Commercial Multi-Engine $10,250, CFI and CFII $4,250, foreign license conversion $17,500. The full career sequence from zero experience is about $44,650 before hour building, and hour building runs from $100 per hour casual single-engine down to $60 per hour on a 1,500-hour block, or $200 to $160 per hour multi-engine. On timelines, Broward students choose their pace more freely than anyone else because the commute is 15 to 35 minutes from almost any community in the county. Full time, private in four to six weeks; part time, four to five months. A career-track Broward student who instructs after the commercial certificate typically reaches airline minimums in roughly two years from the first lesson, and earns while doing the last and longest stretch of it.
Who Trains With Us From Broward County
Because KFXE is Broward's general aviation hub, our student base mirrors the county itself. Career-track students come from Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach and Oakland Park, many of them in their twenties targeting a regional airline. Recreational students skew toward Coral Springs, Weston, Parkland and Plantation — professionals and business owners training around work for personal travel to the Keys, Naples and the Bahamas-adjacent coast. Students from Davie and Hollywood frequently combine training with study at nearby institutions. We also train a steady flow of aircraft owners based at KFXE and KPMP who come to us for instrument training, flight reviews and checkouts rather than a full program. That mix is why the fleet spans basic trainers through glass-panel singles and twins, and why the schedule runs 12 hours a day rather than banker's hours.
How to Get Started From Broward County
Book a discovery flight — it is a real lesson from the left seat and the time counts toward your certificate. KFXE is at 1811 NW 51st Street, Hangar 42D, two miles west of I-95 at the Commercial Boulevard exit, with free parking at the hangar. Before your first solo you need an FAA medical certificate; aviation medical examiners are spread across the county. Get a first-class medical if you intend to fly professionally, so any disqualifying issue surfaces before you invest years. Then set a schedule with your instructor: fixed weekly slots for part-time students, five days a week for accelerated ones. If you have flown before, anywhere, bring the logbook — we credit what the FAA allows rather than restarting you, and we will tell you plainly how many hours you realistically still need.
One Broward-specific advantage worth using: because KFXE sits inside Class D beneath Fort Lauderdale's Class C and within a short flight of Miami's Class B, you accumulate real controlled-airspace experience during ordinary training rather than needing dedicated trips. Broward students routinely finish the private certificate already comfortable on ATC frequencies, which shortens the instrument rating and shows up in checkride results. Pilots trained at quiet uncontrolled fields elsewhere often spend extra hours later learning what you will have absorbed by default.
Other Cities We Train Pilots From
Driving in from somewhere else in South Florida? These pages cover commute times and local routes for nearby cities:
My Flight Time Aviation Academy — Serving Broward County Pilots
Our one staffed location at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) trains pilots from Broward County and across South Florida. These are the exact business details listed everywhere online.
Listed name, address and phone number (NAP) are identical on every page and directory listing.
What Our Students Say
Verified reviews from our Google Business Profile
“Flight Time out of FXE is the best place to build time!! The absolute best prices and of upmost importance to me the flexibility is top notch! I was able to build time incredibly fast while at the same time having a flying job. This allowed me to hit ATP minimums in time for my upcoming class date. The aircraft are well maintained and any squawks are promptly addressed. I was able to forge new friendships and easily hit over 8 hours of flying every day I flew. I would love to highlight the incredible kindness of the staff and emphasize how well they treated me! Shout out to Johnny, Lexi, Mark and Stefan and the other Flight Time staff for all they did to keep the pilot group safe and keep us flying! Blue Skies and Tailwinds!”
“If you’re serious about building time efficiently, this is hands down the best place in the country to do it.
My name is Tony, I’m from Nashville, Tennessee, and I’ve been here since February. I came in with 300 hours and the goal to reach my ATP minimums as quickly and as cost-friendly as possible and this place did that for me. I fly 8 hours every single day and the operation here makes that kind of consistency realistic.
The biggest advantage is the fleet. All the planes are actually well-maintained, reliable aircrafts that you never lose a day of flying because of availability or maintenance. That alone sets this place apart.
The flexibility is amazing. You make your own schedule, go wherever you want, fly when you want, and fly with whoever you want. You can fly as much or as little as you want, which is huge depending on your goals and pace.
On top of that, the pricing is unbeatable. These are EASILY the best priced airplanes you’ll ever fly.
For anyone coming from out of state, they also offer housing, which makes the process easier.
Overall, this is the number one time-building and flight training operation in the nation. If your goal is to build hours quickly, efficiently, and without headaches, there’s no better place to do it.”
“I’m currently in private pilot training, and I’ve really been enjoying everything so far. I’m still in the process, but I’m very grateful I chose this school and I’m excited to keep going.
The instructors are all great, especially Fernando. They are very knowledgeable, patient, and easy to learn from. They take the time to make sure you actually understand things instead of rushing through lessons, which makes a big difference when learning to fly.
What surprised me the most was the size of their fleet they have a lot of Piper and Cessna planes also multi engine planes all in really good condition. It makes me feel very confident in my training knowing the planes are well maintained.
They are also very flexible with scheduling. They really work with you, especially when you’re trying to balance flight training with everything else going on.
Overall, it’s been a great experience so far, and I’m looking forward to finishing all my licenses here at Flight Time.”
“HANDS DOWN, best time building operation in South Florida! Don’t go anywhere else if you’re looking for a good 61 school or a place to build time! The planes are super well maintained with a diverse fleet of aircraft. The school director Cris, is a standup guy as well. Everything is well maintained and the staff are very friendly and accommodating for whatever you need.”
“Flight Time helped me achieve my goal of hitting my ATP minimums. The faculty, the planes, and the people that I met along the way made my journey rewarding and enjoyable. There is no better place than Florida to build your time and polish your skills as a pilot. You won’t find a better place for the price point. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here and couldn’t recommend it more.”
“If you’re serious about building time efficiently, this is hands down the best place in the country to do it. I came in with 300 hours and the goal to reach my ATP minimums as quickly and as cost-friendly as possible and this place did that for me. The biggest advantage is the fleet — well-maintained, reliable aircraft, and the pricing is unbeatable. Overall, this is the number one time-building and flight training operation in the nation.”
Where in Broward County is My Flight Time located?
1811 NW 51st Street, Hangar 42D, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 — at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE).
What cities in Broward County does MFT serve?
All of them — Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Hollywood, Deerfield Beach, Plantation, Sunrise, Davie, and more. All within 20–30 minutes.
Which Broward County cities does My Flight Time serve?
Students come from Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Hollywood, Deerfield Beach, Plantation, Sunrise, Davie, Weston, Parkland and Oakland Park. KFXE is central to the county, so nearly every Broward community is within about 35 minutes.
What does flight training cost in Broward County?
Private Pilot $11,750, Instrument Rating $11,500, Commercial Single $3,125, Commercial Multi-Engine $10,250, CFI and CFII $4,250, foreign license conversion $17,500. Time building starts at $100 per hour and steps down to $60 per hour on the largest single-engine block.
How many aircraft are available to Broward students?
A fleet of Cessna 172s, Piper Archers and Warriors — several with glass panels — plus Piper Seneca and Beechcraft Duchess twins. Fleet size is why scheduling stays open even in peak season; every aircraft and its avionics are listed on our fleet page.
Are checkrides conducted locally in Broward County?
Yes. Written exams and practical tests are scheduled with local testing centers and area designated examiners at KFXE, so there is no travel out of the county at the end of a course.
