Contact & Scheduling

Deposit & Booking Policies

Our instructors have years of experience in all phases of training from general aviation, Part 135, corporate, military, and scheduled air carrier. They are fully devoted to providing one-on-one training. While at AST, you are treated as their priority. Once you have a confirmed training date, that is your date. Some schools schedule more than 1 pilot per day for training in their sims. At AST you will have an instructor and a simulator allocated to you for the dates you are scheduled to train. We will not schedule another pilot to train in that simulator on your scheduled training date.

When you schedule your training, please understand that you are blocking out that time with an instructor in one of our simulators. The $500 deposit is required to hold that time so it isn’t offered to another pilot. If you are unable to attend training on those dates and give us at least two weeks notice prior to your scheduled training, another date can be booked within six months applying that same deposit. If you give less than two weeks notice, the $500 is applied partially cover lost revenue.

IF YOU FAIL TO GIVE TWO WEEKS NOTICE THEN THE FULL AMOUNT OF TRAINING BECOMES DUE AND PAYABLE. AST WILL ATTEMPT TO TRY TO MITIGATE INSIDE OF TWO WEEKS BUT WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO COVER THE TIME PERIOD YOU PAID FOR WITH YOUR INITIAL CONTRACT DEPOSIT FOR THE DATES YOU REQUESTED TO BE RESERVED.

We take a limited number of pilots and we focus on those pilots and what they need to work on. We want you to have the best training and we prefer the deposit go toward that training. Please let us know as quickly as possible of any changes in your schedule. Thank you for your understanding of our policy.

ANY AIRCRAFT HOURLY RATE MAY CHANGE DUE TO THE RISING FUEL COST. OUR CESSNA TWINS BURN A LOT OF FUEL. IF YOU GET A QUOTE AND THE FUEL PRICES GO UP THE HOURLY RATE WILL GO UP TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE RISING FUEL COST.

IF YOU NEED A FLIGHT REVIEW YOU NEED TO TELL SCHEDULING. THE FAA IS CRACKING DOWN ON “FLIGHT” REVIEWS IN THE SIMS. WE CAN COMPLETE A FLIGHT REVIEW FOR YOU IF YOU REQUEST IT IN SCHEDULING. IT IS A SIMPLE PROCESS BUT IT HAS TO BE ASKED FOR WHEN SCHEDULING. THANK YOU FOR THE UNDERSTANDING.

CERTIFICATES

We will issue your certificate at the end of the course unless the person who signs the certificate is not in the office at Burnet or Georgetown when you finish. If this is the case we will send your certificate by email to you once it is signed and check and verified for the aircraft you trained on.

Please contact us to schedule either by calling us or contacting us by email (which is the preferred way as we teach around 20 days a month).