Location
Career Pilot School operates out of New Century Airport in Olathe, Kansas. New Century is a public airport located approximately eighteen miles southwest of Kansas City, Missouri and is an ideal training center for flight education. The majority of traffic at New Century consists of corporate charter and research and development flights, as many of the surrounding hangars are occupied by leading suppliers to the aviation industry.
Students here have excellent opportunities for practice both at and near the field. In addition, a large practice area is literally minutes away. There are over 30 published instrument approaches combined at New Century Airport and other surrounding airports. Career Pilot School accounts for more than 95% of all flight training originating from New Century Airport. For students, this means less time spent on the ground waiting for traffic and more time spent in the air. The proximity of our practice area and numerous instrument approaches allows students to spend more flight time learning and less time traveling to and from the practice area. The states of Kansas and Missouri also provide numerous airports for cross-country flights.
Upon completion of the Private Certificate and Instrument Rating, we encourage students to fly throughout the Midwestern United States. The Midwest provides a variety of different airports which prepare students for the rigors of commercial aviation. From busy Class “B” airspace in Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis, to rural airports in uncontrolled airspace, our students receive the widest range of experience available at any flight school in the nation.
While students will not confuse Kansas City for cities in Florida and Arizona, we have excellent weather that provides opportunities for our students to fly in a variety of conditions. Students, with the input from our staff, will make the same real life weather decisions commercial pilots make on a daily basis. And with weather varying from occasional snow in the winter to thunderstorms in the summer, students will graduate with a greater understanding of weather and how it affects aviation. The average temperature in Kansas City is 65 degrees Fahrenheit and rarely falls below freezing during the winter months.
