Flight Training
Ascend Aviation
208-252-5476
Chris@flyascendavn.com
Aircraft Rental
Tours
Aircraft Owner Support
Where Dreams Take Flight
Flight Training
Take your passion for aviation to new heights with expert flight training designed for future pilots of all levels. Our certified instructors provide personalized instruction, in a modernized aircraft, within a structured curriculum developed over more than twenty years with proven success on FAA examinations. You will be prepared for your private, commercial, and advanced pilot practicals with Ascend! Whether you're pursuing a career in aviation or flying for personal achievement, we’re committed to helping you succeed safely and confidently in the skies.
Aircraft Owner Support
Ascend Aviation owner support provides comprehensive and personalized consulting services for aircraft buyers and sellers, maintenance coordination, trip planning, pilot staffing, regulatory compliance, and expense management. Aviation experts at Ascend will assist aircraft owners, and future owners purchase or sell wisely, maintain efficiently, and fly safely. Cost: $85 hr
Professional Piloting Services
With Ascend Aviation's Pilot Pipeline network, Aircraft owners can find the right commercial pilot for their private air transport needs. In addition to Ascend's on site pilots, Ascend can assist you in finding experienced, current, and qualified commercially certified pilots within the Inland Northwest region. Cost: $85 hr / $700 day
Mountain & Backcountry Flight Training
Take your flying beyond the ordinary and into the extraordinary. Our Mountain & Backcountry Flight Lessons are designed for pilots who want to confidently navigate high terrain, unpredictable winds, and remote airstrips. Whether you're preparing for adventure flying or building advanced stick-and-rudder skills, this training will elevate your airmanship to a new level.
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Site Seeing Tours
Enhance your visit to Northern Idaho with a spectacular 45-minute aerial tour! Ascend’s air tours provide amazing bird’s eye views of spectacular regional attractions of Lake Coeur d’Alene with its scenic bays, coves, and wonderful lake houses. Indulge your imagination with the historical features of the Silver Valley gold and silver rush and the old Coeur d’Alene river ore barge route past the city of Harrison and scenic chain lakes. Document the incredible beauty of the Idaho Panhandle and Coeur d’Alene National Forests where bear, elk, and moose might be seen as greeting your arrival. Don’t miss this rare adventure opportunity.
Note: This tour can accommodate up to three people.
Cost: $395 + tax
Aircraft Rental
Ascend has an aircraft for rent by qualified pilots or Ascend students under instructor supervision. Rental rates are hourly or minimum use rates for multi-day trips. Pilot renters should be current in category (airplane) and class (airplane single engine) for day and night and hold a valid flight review. Renters will be required to complete Ascend’s Cessna 182 qualification/refresher (as appropriate) ground and flight training. This training can be satisfied by an Ascend issued bi-annual flight review required IAW, 14 CFR part 61, § 61.56.​
Cost: $250 hr (Includes fuel & Oil) / Minimum 2 hrs for a 24 hr period (Based off of Tach reading) - We will reimburse for fuel expenses based off of S83 Fuel Rate.
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Companion Copilot
​If you are not a pilot but occasionally fly in light aircraft, you may have wondered what it would take to be more than a passenger and be involved with the flight and help your pilot—even becoming a pilot yourself if, God forbid, something incapacitates the pilot. Good news! We have created a short training course just for you. In this course, we will give you the basic knowledge and give you the opportunity to practice in the aircraft with one of our flight instructors.
You will learn certain principles of flight and how to safely maneuver an airplane in flight. When used in conjunction with your hands on flight lesson, you will learn what makes an airplane fly and how to use the flight controls to fly and land safely. Additionally, you will gain an understanding of key instruments and gauges, fundamental radio communication and navigation, and how to participate as an effective crewmember before and in-flight.
