Ready to fly? Falcon Field (KFFZ) · Mesa, Arizona
Chip Bornstein is an active FAA Designated Pilot Examiner, a Boeing 787 captain and Chief Pilot at Flight Stars. Tell us what you want to train and we'll build a plan around your schedule.
Depending on scheduling, you may fly with one of Chip's highly trained instructors.
Training from someone who examines to the standard, investigates accidents and flies the line. You learn why each recovery works, not just the steps.
About Chip
Chip is an active FAA Designated Pilot Examiner. He knows exactly what good looks like, and he trains you to it.
Most spin and upset training teaches the steps. Flying with Safety Chip, you learn why each recovery works, from someone who has spent a career examining pilots, investigating accidents and flying the line.
Book a flight with Chip
Chip has been a flight instructor for over 43 years and flies as a captain for a major airline on the Boeing 787, after years as a 777 captain. He has worked as an airline flight safety manager, accident investigator, check airman, assistant chief pilot and FAA en route radar air traffic controller. Today he is Chief Pilot at Flight Stars.
As "Safety Chip," he shares the lessons behind real accidents so pilots can avoid repeating them. His training is calm, thorough and focused on whether you can apply what you know.
Chip's storyChip is very fair, and he ensures you know the material by digging deeper into your answers to see that you know the reasons behind every concept. I felt completely comfortable during the flight portion.
He didn't treat the oral as a test, more like hangar flying. That helped my nerves as an 18 year old student pilot a ton.
I ended up doing my PPL, IR and CPL with him. If you know your stuff, you will do just fine with Chip. It won't even feel like a checkride.
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Spin and upset recovery training in the Super Decathlon. Questions first? Call (480) 640-4160.
