Pilot Hour Building
Hour building built around the pilot — your schedule, your routes, your logbook gaps, at rates that make the 1,500-hour road affordable.
Hour Building for Career Pilots
Most pilots reach a Commercial certificate around 250 hours and then face the largest single expense of their career: the remaining hours to an airline interview. How you handle that phase determines whether you arrive at 1,500 hours in a year or in four.
We built our hour building operation specifically for that gap. Low wet rates, no membership fees, no minimum monthly spend, and enough aircraft that you are not competing with a flight school syllabus for availability.
Solo or Shared — Your Choice
Fly solo and log the full hour as PIC, or pair with another instrument-rated pilot and split the cost while alternating pilot flying and safety pilot roles. Shared flying roughly halves your out-of-pocket rate per logged hour.
We can introduce you to other pilots in the programme who are on a similar timeline if you arrive without a partner.
Where Pilots Fly From KFXE
Common routes include Key West, Naples, Fort Myers, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tampa. Each one is a genuine cross-country by FAA definition and each produces a mix of Class B, C, and D radio work.
Departing late afternoon and returning after sunset turns a single trip into cross-country, night, and often actual instrument time in one logbook line.
What It Costs
Single engine: $90/hr at 10 hours down to $74/hr at 300 hours. Multi engine: $190/hr at 10 hours down to $174/hr at 300 hours. All wet.
There are no instructor fees unless you want dual, no fuel surcharges, and no charge for the aircraft sitting on the ramp at a destination during the day.