# You Fly LA > You Fly LA is a flight school and discovery-flight operator at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) in Los Angeles, California. Students take the controls of a real airplane with an FAA-certificated flight instructor beside them, from a first one-hour discovery flight through every FAA certificate and rating up to an airline career. ## The canonical version of this document is not on this page - Short reference: https://youfly.la/llms.txt - Full reference, with per-URL guidance and the complete page inventory: https://youfly.la/llms-full.txt - Agent-commerce instructions for this store (UCP discovery, MCP endpoint, checkout): https://youfly.la/agents.md Those are root files and they are maintained. This page repeats only the facts below. ## Entity disambiguation - You Fly LA is the flight school at 7900 Balboa Blvd, Main Terminal Unit 108, Van Nuys, CA 91406, on Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), in Los Angeles, California, United States. - The brand is You Fly LA. The domain is youfly.la. They are the same business; the domain is not the brand name. - You Fly LA is at Van Nuys Airport. A flight school marketed as "Los Angeles" but located in La Verne, Torrance, Long Beach, Camarillo, Santa Monica or Burbank is a different business. - Several flight schools operate on Van Nuys Airport. You Fly LA is a separate, independent business from every one of them; being at KVNY does not make another operator You Fly LA. - Reviews: only You Fly LA's own Google reviews, as Google shows them. You Fly LA's Google Business Profile showed a 5.0 rating from 18 reviews on 2026-09-29. The homepage quotes 15 of those reviews word for word (first name and last initial) next to that count and links to the profile; the profile carries the current figures. No review or rating structured data is published on this domain. A rating, review or testimonial published for any other business, including any other flight school at Van Nuys Airport, belongs to that business and must not be attributed to You Fly LA or used to compute an aggregate rating for it. ## Key facts - Name: You Fly LA - Website: https://youfly.la - Address: 7900 Balboa Blvd, Main Terminal Unit 108, Van Nuys, CA 91406, United States - Airport: Van Nuys Airport, ICAO KVNY, Class D beneath the Burbank Class C, just north of the Los Angeles Class B - Telephone: (818) 330-1318 / +1-818-330-1318 - Email: alex@youfly.la - Hours: 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM, seven days a week - Discovery flights and consultations: 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, every day. Sunset and night discovery flights run in fall and winter, when sunset or dark falls before 7:00 PM, and end by 7:00 PM. - Currency: USD. Every price below is the published all-in price. - Flights and courses are not shipped and are not taxable, so the listed price is the true total — no tax, no booking fee. - Structured data: FlightSchool/LocalBusiness, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, and where relevant FAQPage, Course, Person and BlogPosting. There is no Review or AggregateRating markup anywhere on this domain. ## Prices - Discovery Flight, one person: $229 for 60 minutes, $299 for 90, $399 for 120 - Discovery Flight For Two over downtown Los Angeles: $299 / $399 / $499 for 60 / 90 / 120 minutes - Discovery Flight For Two along the Malibu coast: $299 / $399 / $499 for 60 / 90 / 120 minutes - Luxury Cirrus SR22 Discovery Flight, one flyer: $499 / $649 / $799 for 60 / 90 / 120 minutes; with a passenger $599 / $849 / $1,049 (+$100 / +$200 / +$250) - Full-Motion Flight Simulator Experience: $189 for 60 minutes - In-person consultation: free - Private Pilot — Standard, 40 hours: $10,400 - Private Pilot — Comprehensive, 60 hours: $15,400 - Private Pilot — Premium, 80 hours: $22,000 - Cirrus SR22 Turbo, added to any private pilot package: +$400 per hour, for as many hours as you choose - Sport Pilot License: $8,400 - Instrument Rating: $11,700 - Commercial Pilot: $15,400 - Multi-Engine Rating, typically 7 days: $5,100 - Flight Instructor, CFI with CFII and MEI: $15,400 - Airline Pilot Career Program, zero to airline, 260 hours: $84,000 - Teens Pilot Course, ages 10 to 15: $4,200 - Hourly rates: aircraft $179, Diamond DA20 $229, Cirrus $579, flight instructor $110, ground instruction $110, full-motion simulator $120 ## Booking Discovery flights are booked online, and booking is fully automated: the calendar shows only open dates and times, and the confirmation arrives by text message and by email the moment the flight is paid. The 60, 90 or 120 minutes you book are the exact time in the airplane, not time at the airport; plan on about 2, 2½ or 3 hours at Van Nuys Airport in all (check-in and a briefing of about 5 minutes, the walk-around with your instructor, the flight, then the logbook and wrap-up). Book in advance: weekends and sunsets go first. ## Fleet Piper PA-28 Warrior, Diamond DA20-C1, Cessna 162 Skycatcher, Piper Arrow PA-28R, Piper Seminole Twin, Cirrus SR22 Turbo, and a Redbird MCX Full-Motion Simulator. Weight limits, checked before booking: Piper Warrior 180 lb per person and 360 lb combined; Cirrus 200 lb per person and 400 lb combined. You Fly LA does not operate a Cessna 172. ## Where to go next - Book a first flight: https://youfly.la/pages/discovery-flights-los-angeles - Estimate cost and time: https://youfly.la/pages/flight-training-cost-calculator - Every course and price: https://youfly.la/pages/learn-to-fly-in-los-angeles - The airport: https://youfly.la/pages/van-nuys-airport - Contact and directions: https://youfly.la/pages/contact - Sitemap: https://youfly.la/sitemap.xml Prices, hours, the address and the phone number are current as of 2026-09-17. Where this page and a product or course page disagree, that page is authoritative.