For over 30-years, Sunrise Flight Academy has trained professional pilots from more than 50 countries with one of the best safety records in the industry.
Sunrise Flight Academy is proud to be the exclusive flight training provider for Florida State College at Jacksonville where we offer accredited degree programs in Professional Pilot Technology (A.S.) and Polk State College at Lakeland, Florida.
If you want to pursue a bachelor’s degree, credits from your professional pilot training transfer to many four-year aviation colleges and universities including Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Our satellite training facilities are conveniently located at Jacksonville’s historic Cecil Airport and Herlong Recreational Airport, and at Lakeland-Linder Regional Airport in Polk County, Florida, home of the world famous EAA Sun-n-Fun fly-in.
We have been in continuous operation since 1983. For over 30-years, Sunrise Flight Academy has trained professional pilots from more than 50 countries with one of the best safety records in the industry.
Sunrise Flight Academy is proud to be the exclusive flight training provider for Florida State College at Jacksonville where we offer accredited degree programs in Professional Pilot Technology (A.S.) and Polk State College at Lakeland, Florida.
To meet the growing needs of the international airline industry, Sunrise Flight Academy is approved by the United States Department of Homeland Security to accept foreign students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. In fact, we provide all documents and assistance necessary for international students to receive the M-1 visa, which permits travel to the United States for professional pilot training. Our programs include international students from over 50 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. We currently have students that hail from Saudi Arabia, India, China, Panama, Korea and England.
Everyone at Sunrise Flight Academy is committed to your success. In fact, training master aviators is all we do!
We have a full staff of experienced FAA certificated flight instructors at each of our locations. This allows us to maintain a low student-to-instructor ratio and ensure you receive the individual attention you deserve.
Our locations in Central and North Florida provide exceptional weather conditions, which permits VFR flying more than 350 days each year! We are conveniently located on Florida’s “Fun Coast” close to world famous Central Florida attractions like Disney World, Sea World, and Universal. For aerospace enthusiasts, the Kennedy Space Center is just an hour’s drive south.
During your stay enjoy the many amenities of Ormond Beach, your “home away from home” while at Sunrise Flight Academy. Our quiet beachside lifestyle and very affordable cost of living provide our students with a great quality of life just minutes from the Daytona Beach resort area.
Supporting your career goals is the focus of everything we do at Sunrise Flight Academy. From academic counseling and mentoring programs, to student development and career placement services, our experienced staff knows how to make your dreams of flight a reality. Many of our staff members have successful backgrounds in the air carrier, charter, military and corporate aviation career fields.
We know what it takes to help you reach your professional goals, and our career placement partnerships with regional and international air carriers help you soar above the rest!
For instance, we are proud to host ExpressJet’s Airline Pilot Placement Program, allowing our graduates a direct path to the world’s largest regional airline!
I invested a lot of time researching for the best schools to do my flight training in the US and found so many schools online. The confusion and frustration levels kept building up because of the fact that all the schools displayed the same level of competence (so they said). Then I learnt about Sunrise aviation from a friend and spoke to the school. The process and professionalism with which I was explained my flight course was the first thing that attracted me to Sunrise!! 30 days later, bags packed, I was picked up and then soon after off on my first flight with an instructor!!!
I remember Jeff’s statement of “training a 250 hour pilot with the knowledge and skills of a pilot with 2500 hours”. With that in mind and the training regime we had; when I returned home (Panama), job interviews and simulator assestments were a breeze! Jeff always pushed us to excell!! Early morning sessions of simulator, followed by videos and lectures, flying and more simulator time. The way of combining advanced techninques in early training stages (i.e. we were learning basic attitude instrument flying while doing our private), proved valuable at later stages of training, it made the whole process efficient!!
“My name is David Smith and I completed my Private Pilot’s license at Sunrise Aviation. I was awarded the James C. Ray Scholarship through Sun ‘n Fun and I chose to do my flight training at Sunrise Aviation. The reason I chose Sunrise, was because of how professional they were, how organized they were, and how they were able to answer all the questions I had. Everyone who works there is extremely friendly and they actually want to get to know you instead of just providing flight training. Sunrise has very well trained CFIs who also want to get to know you as a person, which is very important. They provide a family type environment that helps you as a student to excel in your training. If you are looking for an amazing flight school to start off your career as a pilot, I highly recommend Sunrise Aviation to get you there.”
“William K. Walker, I would like to thank you and your team for taking care of me during the last two weeks at Ormond. I appreciate that you accepted me in your school for the finish up of my IR training while you run a busy business with many full time students.
My overall experience in Sunrise Aviation has been very positive, your team at Sunrise Ormond has been helpful and always willing to support me in any request I had. I would also like to comment on the excellent training given by my IR instructor, Shady. I have had few instructors during my IR training (before joining Sunrise) and without any doubt, I have to say that Shady is the best by far. His flying skills as well as his methodical process of teaching prepared me to pass the test. I would expect him to be a gold star instructor soon and I will refer him without hesitation to any student.
Again, thanks for the support throughout my IR rating and I hope to see you soon for my Commercial training.
Regards.”
For over 30-years, Sunrise Flight Academy has trained professional pilots from more than 50 countries with one of the best safety records in the industry.
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