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  • Cirrus Vision Jet type rating, recurrent training, mentoring and ferry flights, trained in the airplane.
  • FAA certification pathways for pilots from Europe, Australia and the ICAO world.
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Vision Jet Training

The Vision Jet, mastered in the airplane.

Type rating, recurrent training, mentoring and ferry flights with one of the most experienced Vision Jet instructors in the world: SF50 type rating No. 30, Cirrus factory training experience, and the Vision Jet flown across five continents.

Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet, front view
Cirrus SF50 Vision JetAll generations · G1 · G2 · G2+
  1. 01

    Part 61 Type Rating

    Trained and checked entirely in the aircraft. You leave with a full type rating and no PIC limitation, so no 25-hour supervised operating experience. One size does not fit all: the number of training days follows your pilot profile, at your location or with us in Florida. And your ground school starts before day one, with our industry-leading computer based training.

  2. 02

    Part 61 Recurrent, 61.58

    More than an annual box to tick. Systems updates, CAPS decision-making and scenario training built around your own missions, including the hard parts: winter operations, busy airspace, international procedures. The program is updated continuously, so recurrent training becomes an event you look forward to, not a formality.

  3. 03

    Mentor Pilot Services

    Supervised operating experience for Part 142 graduates, built on real trips you want to fly. Post-rating mentorship compatible with Cirrus factory mentoring standards, for as long as you want a second expert in the right seat.

  4. 04

    Global Ferry Flights

    Any SR or SF, from anywhere to anywhere. Oceanic and polar routings, permits and handling, customs, and a clean hand-off at the destination with the books up to date. Ride along if you like. The seat is yours.

Part 61 program accepted by several major US insurance underwriters.

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SF50 Computer Based Training

Understand the airplane before day one.

Type rating and recurrent training with us give you access to industry-leading computer based training for the Cirrus Vision Jet. Instead of talking heads and 2D graphics, an interactive 3D journey through the aircraft systems: you learn, understand and practise the airplane before your first training day with an instructor.

  • Ten interactive systems simulators, from fuel and electrical to FADEC and avionics, each running the real logic of the system, with failures you can trigger and work through.
  • 3D engine and aircraft explorers. Walk around and through the airplane and its engine, component by component.
  • Sixteen ground-school modules with narrated lessons, quizzes, a comprehensive exam and practice tools, built from the manufacturer's publications.
Inside the CBTGuided lessons, interactive simulators and practice tools, all built on the airplane you will fly.
Guided lesson: engine fire protection, with both Halon bottles and the overhead panel
Guided lessonsEngine fire protection · narrated · 26 screens
3D Engine Explorer gas laboratory showing temperature streamlines through the cutaway FJ33
3D Engine ExplorerGas laboratory · pressure, energy and flow
Interactive maneuvers guide: steep turns profile with the five steps
Interactive maneuvers guideSteep turns · type-rating profiles

International Pilot Transitions

Your licence. Your goals. The US system. We build the route.

Pilots from Europe, Australia and the rest of the ICAO world come to us to fly in the United States, to fly N-registered aircraft at home, to earn ratings they can take back, or to step into a Vision Jet. There is rarely one correct path. There is usually a best one for you, and we have built it many times, including taking international pilots all the way through Vision Jet training in the US. Our team includes an EASA examiner based in the United States.

  1. 14 CFR 61.75

    Certificate on the basis of your licence

    A US Private certificate issued on the strength of your ICAO licence, with instrument and type ratings added. No practical test for the base certificate. Right when you want to fly here on your home licence.

  2. BASA TIP-L

    For EASA licence holders

    A standalone FAA certificate with instrument rating, and ratings that transfer in both directions. More flexible than 61.75, with more paperwork. We have done it many times.

  3. Part 61

    Full FAA certification

    Training and checkride in the US when you want a standalone certificate or higher privileges: Instrument, Commercial, ATP. Your ICAO Private counts as the prerequisite.

  4. SF50

    Vision Jet as an international pilot

    SF50 type rating in the US on a 61.75 or standalone certificate. TSA and AFSP clearance, FAA verification letter, medical and examiner all arranged before you fly in, so the trip is training, not administration.

  5. Home licence

    Taking it home

    We plan how the ratings you earn in the US fit your home licence before you start, with an EASA examiner on our team based in the United States.

  1. Phase 1 · Remote

    Assessment

    Your certificates, your goals, the routes available to you, and a written plan with the order of operations and the paperwork each step needs.

  2. Phase 2 · Remote

    Preparation

    FAA verification letter, knowledge tests, TSA and AFSP, medical, logbook review. We also come to you for this phase when it makes sense.

  3. Phase 3 · In the US

    Training and examiner

    Airspace familiarisation, training as planned, examiner, certificate in hand. Florida: Jacksonville Executive at Craig, KCRG.

Assessment and preparation happen remotely. Your presence in the US is needed only for the part that needs an airplane, and for the examination where one is required.

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Grow with aviators who fly the world.

Whatever your next goal is, there is a good chance we have been there before. All pictures were taken during actual Imagine Flying operations.

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    985 Charles Lindbergh Dr, Ste 3E
    Jacksonville, FL 32225, USA
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