The office · somewhere over the Space Coast
One on one instrument training at Merritt Island Airport with a dedicated CFII. File IFR, fly real weather, and become the pilot your passengers think you already are.
A marine layer or a summer buildup stops a VFR pilot cold. Instrument pilots file, fly, and arrive.
Instrument training rebuilds your scan, your procedures, and your discipline. Every hour makes you a better VFR pilot too.
Commercial, CFI, airlines: every professional path runs through the instrument rating. It is step one of going pro.
Those are FAA minimums, not averages: most pilots take more, and the training plan is built to proficiency, not to a stopwatch. Where you actually are determines where we start.
You train with Gretchen Crowe, CFII, one on one, in a Cessna 172 flying with dual Garmin G5 displays and a GPS navigator. The skills you build on that panel transfer straight into modern avionics anywhere.
And the Space Coast is honest instrument country: year round flyable weather to keep your training cadence, real coastal conditions to learn in, and instrument approaches at fields all around the area to practice on. Meet your instructor →
Fresh private pilot or halfway through a stalled rating: a ten minute call gets you a straight answer on timeline, cost, and the next step.