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About Us
At Race City Flight Operations, we value high quality flight instruction over quick instruction. Race City Flight Operations works to improve, innovate, and make a better environment and training program for our students. Our goal is to help create pilots – whether you want to be an airline pilot or a hobby pilot-great and safe pilots instead of using the minimums as the completion standards. We believe, if they are taught to be great pilots, they will be safe and competent pilots months and years after their training.
Race City Flight Operations has been recognized for its high standard of accomplishment in flight training by The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the world’s largest aviation association. Race City Flight Operations has been awarded a spot on the Flight Training Experience Awards as a Distinguished Flight School, a title given to high scoring flight schools & instructors from the 2024 Flight Training Experience Survey.
The 2024 awards were drawn from flight students and pilots who voluntarily reviewed their flight training experience this past fall through an AOPA online customer satisfaction survey. The process yielded an evaluation of 780 different flight schools and 1,202 individual flight instructors.
Our Training Program
Why Race City Flight Operations?
-We are one of the best flight schools to become a COMMERCIAL pilot, AIRLINE pilot or your FAMILY pilot!
-Small runway creates CONFIDENCE anywhere you go.
-AATD FLIGHT SIMULATOR continues training through unfavorable flying weather.
-In-house MAINTENANCE ensures our planes are always available to our students.
-FRIENDLY and DEDICATED team members.
-COMPETITIVE PRICES with flight schools in the area.
-Available for flight lessons 7 days a week allowing FLEXIBILITY for every student’s schedule.
-HOUSING is available for out of region students. Get out of the bad weather and trying with us!
Our Instructors!
Our flight instructors are dedicated to our students’ goals. The student may be an airline pilot career hopeful, or the student may just casually want to learn how to fly. Either way-the priority is always the student. By teaching from a syllabus, your progress will never be held up by a vacation or sickness.
Check Out What We’re Doing!
Beyond the Checkride: Why True Proficiency is Non-Negotiable in Flight Training
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Only a successful commercial checkride can get smile this big! Congratulations Niko, see you in class for CFI! 😁✈
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Choosing the Right Flight School: Your Guide to Taking Off
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6:00 pm: CFI Guided Discussion – CFI Ground School
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Davis gave us another reason to celebrate…his 1st solo!! Way to go!! (ft. CFI John) ✈✈👏
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Beautiful day for another Private Pilot checkride! Congratulations Kennedy!! ✈✈
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Day in the Life of a Student Pilot: From Sunrise to Sunset (and Sometimes Beyond!)
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Instrument Ground School
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Showing some love to Christian, our newest Private Pilot ✈❤
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It’s destiny that Destin took his discovery flight with us! (ft. CFI Elliott) ✈✈
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CFI Guided Discussion – CFI Ground School
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Is a Pilot Career Right for Me? A Realistic Self-Assessment ✈✈
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It’s all for them! We believe transparency is key in building enduring relationships with students and instructors, without it, these successes wouldn’t be possible ✈️✈️ Join us today for a well-rounded training experience ✈️✈️
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And for Day 3: Quality vs. Fast Flight Instruction. Let’s discuss! ✈️✈️
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Here’s Day 2: Cheap vs. Fast Flight Instruction. Anyone care to share their own experience(s) with either of these? ✈️✈️
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For Day 1 we’re taking a closer look at Cheap vs. Quality Flight Instruction. Let us know your thoughts or questions! ✈️✈️
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Make sure to check back in the next couple of days as we elaborate on our mission of being a student-centered flight school through prioritizing cheap, quality, and fast instruction!
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Briggs totally digs aviation, which is why he enrolled in training after his discovery flight with CFI Nick! ✈️👏
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Certified rainbow chasers (*not an actual certification, just a perk*) ✈️🌈
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One last look (knock on wood) of our snowy mountains. Our students really do get the best of training in all seasons!
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Attention instrument students — make sure to sign up for ground school starting the first weekend in February! Available for purchase on our website. ✈️✈️
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RCFO proudly presents MJ, our newest Commercial Pilot! 👏✈️🧑✈️
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Look at Beau go! Congratulations on becoming a Private Pilot, we are so proud! ✈✈👏
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‼️Attention all aspiring CFIs‼️Let’s better ourselves, our students, and general aviation altogether, by sharing the knowledge. Join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays for (RCFO) Instructor led discussions on becoming a CFI. We are happy to welcome individuals outside of our school so RSVP today!
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If you know us, you know we love a good sunset! Shoutout to CFI Nathan for capturing this moment! 😍✈️
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And we’re back with a 1st solo from Zach! Congratulations!! (ft. CFI Trent) 👏✈️✈️
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It may be cold outside, but not too cold for a discovery flight, just ask Ramanpreet! (ft. CFI Nick) ✈🥶
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New year, new Private Pilot! Congratulations John, you’ve earned it! (ft. CFI Matt) 👏✈✈
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To wrap up our 2024 Wrap Up (pun intended), we’re shouting out all the new Wings Over Lake Norman Flying Club members! ✈✈👏
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