Ascent
Ascent
Career Pilot Program
Ascent is Zephyr Aviation's accelerated career pilot program. It's built for those ready to turn the goal of becoming a professional pilot into a clear path forward. Experience a structured roadmap, focused progression, and mentorship from experienced instructors. Ascent keeps you moving from your first flight and through every stage of your journey.
Along the way, you'll build more than certificates and flight time. Develop the knowledge, judgment, and confidence needed to take the next step.
Your path. Your pace. Your wings.
A career in aviation doesn't happen by accident. Ascent gives your ambition direction, with a defined progression that turns the goal of becoming a professional pilot into something you can actively work toward.
You bring the drive. Ascent builds the momentum. Designed as Zephyr's fastest path toward a professional aviation career, focused, accelerated training keeps you moving forward while Ascent takes you higher, building the skills and experience you'll need for what comes next.
The path may be yours, but you won't navigate it alone. Train alongside instructors and professional pilots who share what they've learned, challenge you to understand the why, and help you develop the judgment and confidence to take the next step in your aviation career.
Discovery Flight
See Where It Starts
No pressure. Just an opportunity to experience aviation and see where it could take you.
Private Pilot Certificate
Build The Foundation
This is where you become a pilot. You’ll develop the fundamental skills, knowledge, and decision making required to operate an aircraft safely and confidently.
More importantly, you’ll begin learning to think like a pilot, building the judgment and understanding that every rating, certification, and experience that follows will depend on.
Instrument Rating
Expand Your Capability
Instrument training changes the way you understand and operate an aircraft. You’ll learn to fly by reference to instruments, navigate more complex environments, and make sound decisions when conditions demand greater precision.
It’s an important step in becoming a more capable, disciplined pilot and building the skills expected in professional aviation.
Commercial Pilot Certificate
Raise The Standard
This is where flying begins to become a profession. Commercial training refines the skills you already have while introducing a higher standard of precision, consistency, and responsibility.
You’ll strengthen your aircraft control, decision making, and understanding as you prepare to meet the expectations placed on pilots who are trusted to fly professionally.
Flight Instructor Certificate
Master What You Know
Teaching someone else to fly requires you to understand aviation at an entirely different level. CFI training challenges you to explain not only what to do, but why.
You’ll deepen your knowledge, sharpen your communication and flying skills, and prepare for an opportunity many professional pilots use to build valuable experience while helping develop the pilots behind them.
Financial Aid
Invest In Your Future
Financing shouldn’t be the reason your aviation career stays on the ground. Zephyr can help you explore financing options designed to make professional flight training more accessible.
From training financing to available scholarships and grants, there are several ways to help manage the cost of your education.
Our team can help you understand your options and determine the path that best supports your training and career goals.
Explore Financing OptionsAOPA Aviation Finance offers a flexible line of credit designed specifically for flight training. Funding can be used at any flight school and toward a range of certificates and ratings, giving students another option for managing training costs as they progress. AOPA membership…
Women in Corporate Aviation offers scholarship opportunities designed to help women advance their careers throughout the aviation industry, including financial awards that may support professional pilot training and advanced ratings. Current WCA membership is required to apply.
EAA offers scholarship opportunities for aspiring and advancing pilots, with awards that can support initial flight training or additional certificates and ratings. Eligibility, award amounts, and application periods vary, giving future pilots another potential resource for maki…
The AOPA Foundation offers scholarships for aspiring and advancing pilots, with funding available for primary flight training, advanced certificates, ratings, and aviation career pathways. Eligibility and award amounts vary by scholarship, and AOPA membership is required to appl…