Cirrus Training Center
MORE NEW PLANES - SAME AMAZING SCHOOL
Santa Monica Flyers is proud to be a certified Cirrus Training Center, providing our renters and students with the highest quality flight instruction and fleet. Whether new to flight training or an experienced pilot, our highly experienced Cirrus Certified instructors guide you through the Cirrus Transition Training programs, avionics, airframe, power plant differences courses, and renter checkouts.
Why Cirrus? What is a Cirrus Training Center? Cirrus aircraft boasts uncompromised safety records due to their innovative systems, such as Electronic Stability & Protection (ESP) and the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®). In addition, the luxurious cabin seamlessly integrates technology and spaciousness with thoughtfully designed ergonomics, comfortable seats, and lifestyle conveniences.
Furthermore, the Cirrus Transition Course, available on cirrusapproach.com, contains hundreds of excellent videos, created in bite-sized pieces for busy, hard-working people, which effectively walk any pilot through learning the airframe, systems, and avionics of any Cirrus airplane. To learn more about how to get into the cockpit and start renting our Cirrus aircraft, scroll down to “What is required to rent our Cirrus aircraft?” on our Cirrus Rental page. FAA requirements to become a training center can be found here: certified training center.
EXPERIENCE A DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE - THE CIRRUS LIFE
Cirrus is known as a premium brand when it comes to best-in-class aircraft. Cirrus is passionate about bringing more utility, safety, and flying cirrus aircraft pleasure to their fleet and pilots with your best aircraft training partner and also suitable for the pilot training experience. You will feel excited walking up to this aircraft at our Cirrus Training Center. Our fleet includes completely reimagined, premium design Cirrus SR series collections extending from the exterior to inside the plane. And the sky is the limit with the Cirrus Vision Jet. Although we don’t offer jet training here, Cirrus offers the Vision Jet to take your pilot dreams to the next level. These aircraft completely change the way you operate and experience life. The whole team at Cirrus Aircraft is focused on using new-age technology to make flying simpler, safer, and more enjoyable Cirrus aircraft in the center. The Cirrus is a very modern airplane. They are next-generation in terms of not only the aircraft’s manufacturing, overall performance, and ability but also from a training standpoint. Hence the term The Cirrus Life. At Santa Monica Flyers, we want to bridge you into the world that is Cirrus. The Cirrus Life is all about the adventures and opportunities that await you with a Cirrus aircraft. If you want a taste of The Cirrus Life, you can schedule an entire day or multiple days with any one of our standardized instructors and go to destinations while also learning how to fly the Cirrus.
Cirrus is focused on making aviation safer. They want their planes to be the safest airplanes, and this is shown through their design and curriculum. The difference between Cirrus and many other small aircraft manufacturers is that a complete package is available. The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) is an innovation that has shown itself to be unrivaled in general aviation. The ability to have the entire airplane and its occupants settle safely to the ground should an issue come up is not seen anywhere else. The Cirrus was built around the parachute at its core and thus is standard on all Cirrus. These aircraft also give the pilot crucial information available at their fingertips so they can fly safe and securely. Cirrus made sure that they made the airplane easy to fly so that it addressed a range of piloting skills. They are focused on great design, innovation, and performance in all the aircraft they make, but they also make it a point to be inclusive. They want more people flying and more people gaining the benefits of personal aviation. The Cirrus is also built for comfort, with a luxurious cabin and lifestyle features throughout. This includes air conditioning, USB outlets, and headset straps. These thoughtful features take the flight training experience to the next level so that you can enjoy and maximize your time.
CSIP and TCI INSTRUCTORS of CIRRUS
Cirrus’ global network of Cirrus Training Centers is composed of elite flight schools specializing in Cirrus aircraft transition training. The end goal for many is Cirrus rental. The most effective, safe way to reach that goal is though the Cirrus Training Center’s CSIP and TCI instructors. Cirrus Standardized Instructor Pilots (CSIP) and Training Center Instructors (TCI) have undergone vigorous training exceeding industry standards. This training entails a whole host of online learning where they are taught every component, system, philosophy of use, abnormal emergencies, and standard operating procedures for every type of Cirrus plane. It is an incredibly in-depth training transition required to become a TCI and even more to become a CSIP. Before meeting with your CSIP or TCI, you should set yourself up on cirrusapproach.com to gain access to everything you need to know about the Cirrus Aircraft in easy-to-understand videos. There are a handful of courses to choose from, so inquire with us regarding the correct one foy you. Once you have done that, you and your CSIP or TCI, will start completing your course which contains a host of standardized maneuvers. Your instructor must go through all of your course to completion. Typically, a pilot with average experience and no prior Cirrus training will need 10 to 20 hours of flight training to complete the transition course. The process is very standardized and specific to learning Cirrus airplanes. Every CSIP or TCI has their own style and personality, but everyone who flies a Cirrus will be taught the same content with the same emphasis on the same essential items. Since everyone goes through a standardized path, Cirrus can decrease deficiencies that could be overlooked and ensure that everyone comes out of this path equally competent.
Cirrus transition training program is unique in the aviation industry. Few other manufacturers offer this level of training to their pilots. Cirrus does this because it must standardize its training to ensure the safest, most comfortable transition. This transition training is required to rent a Cirrus because every component of this aircraft, especially the avionics, is completely integrated. A CSIP’s job is to help pilots efficiently navigate the system so they really get the most out of the airplane and enjoy it and also enjoy the safety aspects of it as well.
SHOULD I COMPLETE MY PRIVATE PILOT LICENSE IN A CIRRUS AIRCRAFT ?
It’s comfortable, it’s fast, and it’s straightforward to fly! The Cirrus Aircraft offers a total cocoon of safety, but the pilot must understand what that means as well. For someone without a pilot’s license, Cirrus has the perfect course in place to bring you from where you are to a certified pilot. The Private Pilot Program is exactly what you will need to train on our Cirrus Aircraft whilst fulfilling the training requirements for the private pilot certificate with the FAA. The Cirrus is a fast, premium airplane that requires only the best training to master. That is exactly where a Cirrus Training Center, such as ourselves at Santa Monica Flyers, can make the dream of becoming a pilot true while nurturing you to the highest level so that you are competent once at the flight controls.
