Aces High Aviation

Aces High is making a big move!

admin — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:20:26 +0000

It’s finally happened. After just under two years, we’ve outgrown our location and it’s time for us to move along to something bigger and better. The new home of Aces High Aviation will be at the Aeroplex & Signature Flight Support facility. We are very excited about what this move has to offer our customers. We will be getting a much larger location, a building all to our own, and, in addition, all of the great services that Signature and Aeroplex can provide. With this move, Signature will become our fuel provider. Anybody who knows FBO’s can tell you Signature is the place to be. In addition, we will have the services of Aeroplex along with all its facilities. Aeroplex is one of the longest standing Aviation facilities at Long Beach. Not only that, parking will be directly in front of our facility and directly south of F2. This should save several minutes on the hobbs for each flight.
With any upgrade our costs will go up. As it stands, we plan to keep our rates exactly as they are and you’ll save an extra few minutes off your flight time. We might need to increase rates a dollar or two, but nothing more. Again though, rates will be exactly the same as they are for now.

Our planes and office will be moving tomorrow. All you’ll need to do is come to Aeroplex for your next flight. Details of our location and procedures will be included on a schedule for every airplane. Just click on it and read the details. Stay tuned as we work the kinks out of fueling procedures and tiedown locations. We will be putting the new phone numbers on the binders and marking the parking spots for each plane. Also, be patient while the dust settles in the new office. Over the next month or two we plan to introduce a few more new items that you’ll appreciate and when its all settled we will host another open house in the spring.

We aren’t done yet though. We also have plans to bring another plane on line this week. For now, all we can say is it’ll be able to provide you a new,inverted attitude on flying.

Our new address will be:
3333 E Spring Street Suite 100
Long Beach Ca 90806
This is just a few hundred yards east on Spring street from our current location. Look for the big sign that reads AEROPLEX.

Our office phone will remain the same, 562-726-3719 and, as a friendly reminder, please call this number exclusively for any AHA business. Please only call Paul or Cody on their personal numbers if there is an emergency needing immediate action.

G1000 Courses at Aces High Aviation

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:05:35 +0000

Aces High Aviation will be hosting a G1000 introductory course starting May 1st at 5pm. This course will consist of (5) different classes for better flexibility and to provide more time to focus on specific areas. The classes will be taught by Daniel Jenkins, Gold Seal CFI and FAA Safety Rep on TAA Aircraft.

These classes are designed as a primer which will cover basic operations of the system and assist in giving new and transitioning aviators the confidence needed to fly safely without added distraction. These classes would be great for anybody who is interested in learning about the capabilities of the G1000 and would like to become more comfortable with it’s features.

Classes:

1) The PFD and Internal Components May 1st @ 1700

2) The MFD for the VFR pilot TBA

3) VFR Flight planning for the MFD TBA

4) Emergency Procedures and Integrating the KAP 140 Autopilot TBA

5) IFR operations with the G1000 TBA

Each class will last for approx 2 1/2 hours and will cost $30 per person.

Please email Dan directly at danjenkinscfi@gmail.com to RSVP for this event.

Danny Green is now a FAA Gold Seal Instructor

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:59:25 +0000

Danny recently renewed his flight instructor certificate and is now a FAA Gold Seal Instructor. To qualify an instructor must have held both a CFI and ground instructor certificates for at least 24 months, have a pass rate of 80% or better and have trained and recommended a minimum of 10 applicants. well done Danny! Danny currently holds an ATP multi engine, commercial single engine, CFI, CFII, MEI, AGI and 2 type ratings.

Carlos Completes His Instrument Flight Instructor Certificate

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:08:55 +0000

Carlos successfully completed his CFII add on just a couple months after his CFI initial. He was also hired by a flight school in San Diego and it sounds like things are going great for him! His CFI was Cody Pierce.

Mike C. Goes Solo

admin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:53 +0000

Mike went on his first solo today at all went very well. His CFI is Cody Pierce.

Congratulations to Garik on completing his Private Certificate

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:33:58 +0000

With the help of David Mann Garik was able to successfully complete his Private Pilot check ride in 1484B.

Congrats Garik

Mike L. Passes his private pilot Checkride

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:48:28 +0000

Congratulations to Mike L. And his CFI David Mann on the successful completion of his Private Pilot Certificate.

Congratulations Jason on completing the Instrument Rating

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:59:45 +0000

Jason completed his instrument checkride in the Tampico with approaches at Torrance and Long Beach. His instructor was Cody Pierce.

Congratulations to Hank on passing his CFII!

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:46:58 +0000

Aces High instructor Hank W. just passed his CFII checkride with the help of Cody Pierce. If your looking to get started on your instrument or an IPC give Hank a call!

Socal TRACON tour, Feb. 21, Montgomery Field

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:55:25 +0000

For those of you that missed it, the Mojave fly out was a lot of fun for everybody who went. We had 4 planes in total there and 9 people. Now we are ready to do it again!

Socal TRACON Tour, San Diego – Feb 21, 2010
We’ve been provided the rare opportunity to tour this ATC facility at Miramar in San Diego. Socal TRACON handles all of the departure and arrival coordination for all IFR aircraft in the Socal area as well as providing services to VFR aircraft.

Our plan is to fly to Montgomery field in San Diego where we will be picked up and drove to the facility by van. I’ve coordinated to have controllers who work the Long Beach area (‘Coast’ sector) to be available for questions. This should provide us a valuable and rare chance to learn a lot more about what is happening on the other end of the radio. I’m hoping we can all learn a lot and put it to work making everybody’s work easier!

Space is limited to and we need to know if you’d like to come by Wednesday, February 9th. Please reply to this email if you’d like to go and let us know if you want to fly yourself, bum a ride, if you’ll be bringing any guests, or if you’ll have any empty seats if you plan to fly. Once we know how many people are going we’ll be able to coordinate an arrival time but expect to leave mid morning. If the group would like we can also plan to have lunch at Casa Machado in Montgomery. We will reserve as many planes as necessary and we can coordinate to find rides and open seats. We’ll also plan on taking our newest addition to the fleet, a 7 seat Cessna 207 Skywagon. More to come on that new arrival soon!

Hope to see you there!

Part of the group before departing the Mojave fly out.