The Value of Online Flying Lessons
Our remote flight sim coaching is a premium service designed to bring the best certified flight instructors straight into your home flight sim. We strive to maximize the benefit you get from each minute you spend with our instructors – and set you up for success during your solo practice in between sessions.
While many flight instructors use instructing as a stepping stone to their next job, our instructors are truly passionate about teaching. They bring a variety of experience and expertise to the table – ranging from corporate jet and airline pilots, to international flight experience, and a range of type ratings. These are the types of needle-in-a-haystack instructors who might be difficult to find otherwise. Needless to say, we’re proud to bring them to your fingertips.
If you’re a real-world pilot or student pilot, check out our breakdown of how 1 remote coaching session compares to a real-world flight lesson.
Flight Sim Coach is also unique from other traditional flight training outfits in that:
- We strive to provide a scheduling and payment experience that is modern and frictionless. There’s no need to email back and forth with your instructor for scheduling – simply use our online scheduling system.
- Most of our CFIs offer free consultation sessions.
- We provide a money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with your first session. Don’t try asking for that at your local flight school!
- Our flight instructors are proponents of desktop flight simulation! There are many CFIs who don’t believe that home simulators are appropriate for certain uses, focusing on the potential for bad habit formation, instead of finding ways to mitigate them and use the desktop simulator as the ultimate “chair flying” tool – even for student pilots. Our team recognizes the value of using desktop simulators in unexpected ways to help you maximize their training value, while minimizing bad habits.
- We work together as a team to share best practices and tips specific to remote instruction, to ensure you receive the best possible services as our client.
- Our flight instructors are willing to record your sessions so you can review and re-fly the session as many times as you would like. Time and time again, we receive feedback about how useful these recordings are for debrief and for practice in between sessions.
- We developed special X-Plane/MSFS plugins allowing our instructors to see your flight control inputs and provide improved coaching feedback.
- We developed an integrated platform allowing you to seamlessly move between different instructors, allowing you to benefit from a wide range of availabilities and various perspectives.
- Our team can work together to help you solve problems with your simulator setup without having to spend hours searching internet forums. If there’s a particular aircraft or piece of hardware you need help with, chances are that we know someone who can assist you. We can even call upon our experienced simulation software developer partner who can help with advanced troubleshooting or write custom X-Plane plugins for specialized needs.
- We understand the value of flight simulation as a rewarding hobby! Some of our instructors began their aviation careers based on an interest in flight simulation from a young age – so we completely understand the perspective of the hobbyist simmer who wants to learn as realistically and accurately as possible, in a way that other flight instructors and pilots might not.
While nothing can replace real-world flight experience, we’re confident that you’ll find the benefits of using our services to be well-worth the cost – allowing you to focus more of your real-world flight experience on the things that can only be experienced properly in the air.
You will enjoy the convenience of being able to learn from an experienced pilot from the comfort of your own home (even at night or when the weather is terrible out).
Even if you have never flown a real aircraft before, this is a unique opportunity to get as close as possible to the experience of a real flight lesson, at a small fraction of the cost.
What our clients have to say:
“My first FlightSimCoach session and it was really a great experience. Jordan was very easy to discuss issues with and never seemed to be “talking down” to me as has happened on various forums and help sites. Had sent him a “bullet list” of issues/problems I needed help with. All the issues/problems were software related. There was no how to fly or navigate issues for this session. He was well prepared and resolved each bullet quickly and explained what was happening and why. After sending the “bullet list” but before our session MSFS2020 just quit. It would not open/boot. Jordan took on this surprise issue first during the session and resolved the issue. Will consider Jordan to be my go to resource for any assistance with MSFS2020.”
“Patrick is amazing. Extremely competent both on tech and flight instruction. Patient and super nice guy.”
“Rafael remotely set up my equipment to a high standard, updating drivers for it all and making it work. He then calmly and clearly guided me through making the instruments work.”
“Hi Mike, I just wanted to pass on some feedback about Rafael, who has been helping me with both the technical side of my simulator and my flying instruction. I think it’s important that you know how your instructors are performing, and I can honestly say Rafael is 10/10, just like you and Jordan. He has excellent in-depth knowledge, explains things clearly and, most importantly, knows how to simplify things so students can easily understand them. That, to me, is exactly what makes a good instructor. It’s great to see you’ve built such a competent and professional team. Rafael clearly has a very promising future in aviation ahead of him, and I thought his efforts deserved some recognition. Best regards, Kevin”
“Raphael is a great instrucoe Very happy Unfortunately having a lot of issues with my set up”
“I had a great session with Sam. He is very knowledgeable and I wanted his opinions on various topics since he is a commercial pilot. I had a written agenda on questions and he was nice enough to go a few extra minutes to answer all my questions. I really enjoyed my session with Sam and he taught me a number of very helpful tips on navigation.”
“I had a great experience with Rafael and my issue was address”
“Rafael provided excelled customer service and support. He understands X Plane 12 and Microsoft Flight Simulator software and setup. Thank you, Bob Perez”
“Julian was terrific and very helpful setting up our Vatsim account …”
“Rafael was a pleasure to speak with. He was 10 out of 10. Very helpful very informative and insightful. His knowledge of the software and systems were a great help. While we didn’t get the issue fixed 100% he led me in the right thing to do when our time ended. His customer service and technical expertise was only outmatched by his willingness to get the problem resolved. Rafa it was my pleasure and I hope we get a chance to chat again.”
“My instructor David S. was excellent. We had a slight glitch before I had to leave for a meeting but upon my return David texted and wanted to finish the session in its entirety and he did and my system is up and running”
“Dave is very detailed and very thorough and everything that he does. He is an outstanding instructor. I have enjoyed both of my sessions with Dave. You’ve got a good man here.”
