Cirrus instruction in San Diego
Your airplane. Your airport. An instructor who knows the Cirrus.
Transition training, instrument work, flight reviews and recurrent training for Cirrus SR20, SR22 and SR22T owners — flown in your own aircraft at Montgomery-Gibbs, Gillespie, Carlsbad, or wherever you keep it.
What I teach
Cirrus transition and recurrent training
New-to-Cirrus owners, step-ups from SR20 to SR22T, and annual recurrent training. Perspective, Perspective+ and Perspective Touch+ avionics, CAPS decision-making, energy management, and the real-world flows that keep the airplane ahead of you.
Instrument rating, IPC and currency
Earn the instrument rating in your own Cirrus, or get a proper instrument proficiency check and the approaches you actually fly in Southern California: coastal marine layer, Class B underneath, and busy terminal airspace.
Flight reviews and getting current again
A flight review that is tailored to a Cirrus and to San Diego airspace, not a checkbox. Also for pilots returning after a long layoff or relocating to the area and needing a local airspace checkout.
Ground instruction, in person or online
Avionics deep-dives, flight-plan and weather briefings, written-test prep, and scenario sessions. Scheduled around your calendar, on video when that is more practical.
Not an owner yet?
A good share of the people who call me have not bought the airplane. They are engineers, physicians and founders who research everything, and the Cirrus decision is the one they want a second opinion on before the deposit goes down: which model, which generation, used or new, what the pre-buy should catch, and what the first year really costs.
I do that as a flat-fee advisory, quoted up front, and the fee does not change based on what you buy or whether you train with me afterward. I am not a broker and I do not take referral fees from anyone.
Why it is worth paying for
The dealer is not neutral, the broker is paid on the sale, and the forums are full of confident people with one data point. What is missing is someone who has flown every generation of the SR22 for owners and in charter, can read a logbook, and has no stake in which airplane you pick.
An hour of that before you buy is cheap next to a panel you do not need, an annual that finds what the pre-buy missed, or an insurance quote that assumed training you cannot get.
Where we fly
I come to the airplane. Primary fields are the three below; anything within roughly 25 miles of San Diego works, and I travel further for multi-day training by arrangement.
Also: Brown Field (KSDM), Ramona (KRNM), Oceanside (KOKB), Fallbrook (L18), French Valley (F70) and John Wayne (KSNA) by arrangement.
Why owners train with me
Most of my Cirrus time is in the SR22 series — flying owners' airplanes, flying charter, and teaching. That matters because the Cirrus rewards a particular way of thinking: it is fast, it is slippery, the avionics do a lot, and it asks you to stay ahead of it. Training in the owner's aircraft, with the owner's panel and the owner's missions, is the only way I have found to make that stick.
Alongside the Cirrus work I hold a Citation Ultra SIC Typed and have flown in the jet world, which shapes how I teach checklists, briefings and single-pilot resource management back in the piston airplane.
Also: aircraft management and advisory
Already an owner and thinking about a partnership, a 135 lease-back, or a move up? I advise owners and small operators on operating costs, maintenance planning, upgrade decisions and the honest answer to "should I do this".