We can work around your work schedule or help you progress rapidly with one of our accelerated programs. Our magnificent fleet of Diamond aircraft offer the latest technology, stable and predictable handling and the highest level of safety. With our Diamond Factory Authorized Service Center collocated with the flight school, our fleet is maintained to the highest standards. Add our world class programs and instructional staff, and you have the best flight training operation in the country (even the AOPA agrees with this naming us best in class multiple times).

The cool air of winter allows for the very best performance out of the aircraft and wonderful visibility on most days. Give us a call or schedule a meeting to get started to enjoy some of the best flying weather!

If you would like to book an appointment for an in-person (or online) meeting to discuss training with us, please click here.

If you’re as serious about flying as we are – give us a call. Take Flight Aviation can make it happen for you!

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Take Flight Aviation, which has been named Best in the Nation and Best in the Northeast by AOPA, offers world class accelerated Part 141 Professional Pilot Training. Our 6 month, intensive, academy style Part 141 Private, Instrument and Commercial Pilot Training Programs have proven time and again to build intelligent, safe, and efficient aviators. Take Flight’s graduates have a 100% placement rate at airlines and corporate operators throughout the country – and they pass through their initial airline and corporate training successfully every time.

With Take Flight Aviation’s Professional Pilot Program, you control your destiny. After training in our fleet of cutting-edge technology Diamond Aircraft fleet, you can continue on to earn your Instructor Ratings. We hire most of our graduates to work with us as staff Flight Instructors. As you reach the 1500 hours required to earn your Airline Transport Pilot License, you have every regional airline and many charter and corporate operators to choose from. Flying for the big legacy carriers is right around the corner from there.

Additionally, you can earn your Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree with Utah Valley University Online, an accredited and respected University with one of the Nation’s largest and most successful Aviation Departments – through one of their online programs while concurrently performing your flight training with Take Flight Aviation. You’ll get the same degree that you would earn attending the school in person, and you’ll earn your ratings with the school recognized as the best in the business by the AOPA – and you’ll save a small fortune in the process.

With financing available to qualified applicants – there’s no better way to ensure that you have the real-world flying skills and the experience the airlines and corporate flight departments are looking for.

If you’re as serious about flying as we are – give us a call. Take Flight Aviation can make it happen for you!

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Learning to fly isn’t like learning to play golf or sail, flight training is a year-round pursuit, with some of the best training time existing during the winter months. Aircraft perform best in the cool air of the winter. There is very little thermal activity from land heating up which allows for smooth air and of course low humidity leads to outstanding visibility from the cockpit. While you won’t learn to fly in a snowstorm, we won’t be taking a Private Pilot candidate up in a summer rainstorm either, so we tend to find the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in the winter. All our aircraft are equipped with extremely effective cabin heaters – ensuring you are comfortable and warm in the cockpit.

Speaking of cockpits, we’ve got aircraft with some of the most advanced, yet easy to use cockpits in the business. Our Diamond DA40, DA40NG & DA42NG Aircraft feature the advanced G1000 and G1000 NXi avionics suite with integrated radios, GPS, Traffic Information System, XM Weather, Terrain Warning and Synthetic Vision. Our DA20 aircraft feature an array of advanced GPS and communications systems. With nearly two dozen aircraft including four twins in our fleet, Take Flight Aviation has one of the largest fleets of Diamond Aircraft of any independent flight training organization in the Country.

Our training programs generated 100 new ratings for our clients last year. Our staff of Flight Instructors represent some of the finest in the business. Our internal systems ensure that you always know where you are in the programs, are scheduled out well in advance, and are flying safe, beautifully maintained aircraft.

If you’re thinking about being able to use personal aircraft and avoiding the headaches of commercial travel – the best time to get started is right now – and the best place – Take Flight Aviation.

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Having a leadership team that’s trained and worked at airports in Westchester and Farmingdale, NY, we knew exactly what those airports offered. And with clients coming to us from some of the other Central & Northern New Jersey airports, we knew the positives and negatives of those fields as well. In our view, Orange County Airport offers the ideal combination of features for your pilot training:

1) Simple, uncongested Class G Airspace, which allows our clients to fly standard patterns at our home field, time and again. If your instructor wants you to fly a short-in approach or a longer final leg to landing, it’s their call, not dictated by a control tower and high-density traffic operations.
2) No delays on the ground means no wasted money. Our team has spent many Friday afternoons sitting at Westchester Airport with the engine running for 45 minutes, waiting to depart. Farmingdale isn’t much better, with students from the field’s half-dozen flight schools working in the pattern at any given time.
3) We’re 5 minutes from takeoff to entry to our practice area, one used only by our school. Many other airports in the region require a 20 minute flight after departure to get to a practice area or another airport for pattern work. And many of those other schools share practice areas, making them very congested with training traffic. Training at KMGJ means efficiency and safety.
4) With intersecting runways (4-22 and 8-26), at KMGJ we always have a runway right into the wind.
5) KMGJ is a General Aviation field, which means there’s no airline traffic and few large business jets to generate turbulence during your initial training. And when you need to learn to fly in the vicinity of heavy aircraft, you’ll find them only 5 minutes away at Stewart International Airport (KSWF).
6) We are just outside the busy New York Class Bravo airspace, not underneath it or in a cut-out airspace. We can train over open fields and beautiful rural areas where we bother no one – and we can still get to the complex and busy NY airspace in minutes.
7) Orange County makes quality hangar space available to us. Take Flight has the hangars to properly maintain its fleet as well as the private aircraft of its clientele. Being a destination for light aircraft maintenance means we hire the best airframe & powerplant mechanics and ensure they are up to date on the latest maintenance issues and techniques. Experience counts, and Take Flight Aviation has the facilities to handle whatever comes our way.
8) Orange County Airport is mere minutes from the New York State Throughway and I-84, making it extremely easy to drive to. We also have airline service at nearby Stewart International Airport as well as many short- and long-term housing options near us, making it easy for clients coming in from a distance train with us.

All these reasons mean training at Orange County will save you money *and* time. Consider this: our Private Pilot clients wrap up training, on average, in 44-48 hours. The national average is 75 hours. So you’re looking at 25-30 hours of savings. Surely that’s worth an extra 45 minutes in your car.
Take Flight Aviation offers the best flight training & equipment at the best training airport in the New York metropolitan region.

Call us to learn more about how to put Take Flight Aviation to work for you!

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While our pandemic response has been exceptionally successful throughout the year, we continue to evolve our health and safety processes to ensure that Take Flight remains a safe and enjoyable place for you to fly. We want to be sure that everyone gets the chance to do what they love…safely….as we march into 2021.

Enjoy the Holidays, stay safe and let us put some wind beneath your wings during your next visit. And speaking of wings, we’ve got incredible new equipment coming your way in the new year. Stay tuned!

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We are also happy to announce that after years of hard work as a Probationary Part 141 operator, Take Flight Aviation was awarded its full FAA Part 141 Certification last week. This status will allow us to open up even more exciting training opportunities for our clients. Maybe most importantly, we are happiest to announce that our Health and Safety protocols have kept every single one of our clients healthy and continue to keep Take Flight Aviation one of the safest places you can go outside of your home.

As we move through this holiday weekend, we invite you to enjoying one of our favorite Freedoms – the Freedom to fly. Whether it’s for recreation or as a career, at a leisurely pace or accelerated; we can offer you a Private Pilot’s license, Instrument Rating, Commercial License or Multi Engine Add On rating at our home field in Orange County NY or your home field in the NY Tri State Area. In fact, we also now have a Part 61 satellite operation in Farmingdale, NY. As always, we offer an extensive array of modern and magnificently maintained Diamond Aircraft available for both training and rental at Orange County.

Happy Independence Day!

The Take Flight Team

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Take Flight is not only up and going, we’re up and growing! With a second Diamond DA42NG on site and a second brand new DA40NG scheduled for delivery soon, our fleet continues to evolve into the finest anywhere. We also are increasing the number of flight instructors on staff with the addition of some truly brilliant and motivated CFI’s to our already outstanding team.

Of course, all of this is worthless if we can’t help keep you as safe as possible for the Coronavirus, so Take Flight Aviation has developed an industry leading set of safety guidelines that have continuously met or exceeded CDC guidelines. Over the past month, we’ve had zero incidences of Coronavirus spread through contact at Take Flight Aviation. With the continued strict adherence to our policies by our staff and clients, we can continue this precedence with confidence. Give us a call to learn more about the steps we are taking to keep everyone safe.

Our schedules are streamlined with fewer clients assigned to each instructor – and students no longer are being shared by multiple instructors. If you would like to resume your training at Take Flight Aviation – please contact Ryan directly at 845-457-4188 to initiate the process. Schedules are filling quickly and we want to ensure you get back in and can secure the days and times you desire, so scheduling ahead is definitely advisable. Walk-ins unfortunately cannot be accommodated during this time – please call ahead.

Take Flight has a big enough fleet to welcome renters. There’s no better way to get around by air right now than in a private aircraft.

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