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Advantage Aviation is located at the Palo Alto Airport in the heart of Silicon Valley. From the Palo Alto airport, you can take your friends on an aerial tour of the San Francisco Bay or fly to Half Moon Bay in just 15 minutes. Imagine flying to Monterey or Napa for lunch in less than an hour. Fly to Sea Ranch, Yosemite, or Lake Tahoe for the day or spend the weekend. Wherever you decide to go, flying makes the journey enjoyable and Advantage Aviation makes it fun, safe and affordable.

Learning to fly or a seasoned pilot, Advantage Aviation has something to offer. We have a newly remodeled 2800 square foot flight training facility and some of the best flight instructors in the Bay Area. Our main pilot lounge doubles as a meeting room for groups to conduct ground schools, safety seminars or other social events. In addition to four private training rooms, we have a conference room that can be reserved by our members. We also offer a weather briefing room and high-speed wireless Internet access.

Since we have our own private ramp, our planes are located just outside the door. There is no reason to walk to the other side of the field to get to your aircraft. We also provide private parking for our overnight travelers. Our 10,000 square foot hangar is used to provide shelter for our customer's aircraft and to provide both in-house and outside maintenance.

Flying becomes fun and easy with Garmin's G1000!

Advantage Aviation has eight Garmin G1000 equipped aircraft in our fleet. Five Cessna 172SP's, three Cessna 182's. Consolidating all the primary flight, navigation, weather, terrain, traffic, radio frequency and engine data readouts once scattered across a myriad of instruments on two crisp, 10" LCD displays, the G1000 glass cockpit brings new levels of safety, efficiency and situational awareness to your aircraft's flight deck.

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Fly the RedBird FMX at Advantage Aviation

"experience full-motion"

Advantage Aviation is proud to offer the RedBird FMX, a superior-quality, full-motion, Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD). The RedBird FMX serves up a level of realism that is simply not available in other training devices - wrap-around visuals, full-motion, and an enclosed cockpit! Immersing the pilot in the simulation is essential to experiencing sensations of flight. The Redbird FMX features full-motion and a six monitor, wrap-around visual system that accomplishes just that. Learning is enhanced at all levels by allowing you to train procedures and maneuvers that are not possible with other flight training devices. In addition to state-of-the-art instrument training, maneuvers such as turns around a point, circling approaches, spin/upset recovery or even pattern work can be mastered at half the cost of the real aircraft.

Transition to G1000 Glass Cockpit

New, convenient way to learn the world's most popular glass cockpit! Flying any glass cockpit aircraft requires transition training to familiarize yourself with the aircraft's systems. Transition training is most effective when you prepare ahead of time. One of the most efficient and cost effective resources for preparing yourself for G1000 transition is the Precision Flight Controls MFD Garmin flight simulator. Advantage Aviation has one of the most sophisticated G1000 flight training simulators in the world. The Precision Flight Controls (PFC) model MFD Garmin G1000 simulator, is ideal for glass cockpit initial training, glass-transition training, or recurrent training. The PFC MFD features 10-inch panel and is equipped with Garmin's G1000 integrated avionics system and GFC 700 autopilot. This is the perfect platform for learning or mastering the G1000 cockpit, or on which to take an IFR refresher course.

Why limit yourself to flying out-dated aircraft with 30 year old instruments?

Keep up with the times by transitioning to the new Garmin G1000 flight deck. Several years ago, very few aircraft shipped with glass cockpits. Now, nearly 100% of all new GA aircraft ship with glass cockpits, most of them Garmin G1000. Whether you are just starting your training to be a pilot or you have been flying traditional avionics equipped aircraft for years, you should consider the enhanced safety of flying these exciting new G1000 equipped aircraft and let the experts at Advantage Aviation help you learn this new technology.