Had a great experience here at airtrek north. Came here for the accelerated commercial and am from California. It's very organized and a good price as well. I believe around 2900$. They set up the DPE for you and have a CFI ready to help you! I highly recommend this place for accelerator or normal flight training! read more

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FAR Part 61 school, old airplanes, inexperienced Instructors that gives minimal briefs and de-briefs. Spend your money elsewhere....

Elizabeth Molnau is a great flight instructor! She is very patient, very cool, and most importantly very knowledgeable!

My experience was great at air trek north. All of the CFI's I had were easy to work with, and just awesome people in genera. They also offered a line tech job that helped lower the cost of flight training. Especially as a younger student. read more

Less than two weeks prior to my scheduled multi-engine flight training, I received a text message asking if "Randy has contacted [me] about moving [my] training to a different week." I informed the gentleman that texted me that I had not and inquired if I was certainly going to have to reschedule my training. I informed him as to how much of an inconvenience it was going to pose. I specifically started planning and scheduling this specific date 5 or 6 months prior due to work constraints. The gentleman who originally texted me said he would check with Randy. Two days later, I hadn't heard anything (now 1.5 weeks from my scheduled departure for my training) so I texted and asked what the update was. I then received an email from Randy simply stating that I had two options: 1) get a refund or 2) reschedule. Given the fact that I was traveling from southern Indiana and own my own business with numerous employees and clients depending on me, rescheduling was going to be difficult so I opted to call instead of email Randy. While on the phone, I immediately gathered that Randy was in defense mode so I was intentionally trying to be cool, calm, and collected while explaining how much of an inconvenience this was going to pose, not to mention quite a bit of lost revenue for my business as it was too late to fill the positions for the week of the originally scheduled training and now another week of training. Perhaps I was simply expecting an apology and an explanation since I had already decided I was going to try to find a flight school closer to home after this experience. What I received was far from an apology, but I certainly received an explanation followed by belittling comments about how I need to try to understand FAA regulations. Randy then hung up on me. I immediately called back and had to leave a message. The good news is that I'm getting a full refund and I received the most pleasant email from Randy about how he enjoyed talking to me. The bad news is that I will not be able to get refunds on some of my travel expense deposits, so I have still lost money. To their defense, the plane had more flight time than they expected and required its 100 hour inspection. I understand there is nothing they can do about this regulation, though I was hoping there would be safeguards built in so this wouldn't happen, especially since people are traveling to their location, scheduling flights, hotels, renting cars, etc. These plans are sometimes very difficult to change/reschedule. After further investigating, Randy holds the coveted Gold Seal Flight instructor status. Perhaps he is a good flight instructor, but his communication and attitude are certainly lacking. You would expect a person with this status to have a higher level of professionalism. Please note: I am not giving a bad review because I was unable to fly/train with them. There is nothing they could do about that. Unexpected things happen- especially in aviation. I am giving a bad review because of how it was handled, the lack of communication, and how Randy treated me while on the phone. Long story short, do not make major expensive plans surrounding this training as there are no safeguards to ensure you will get the training you have planned and studied so hard for. read more

I was a little nervous because I've never flown before but the atmosphere was really laid back. Randy obviously had a lot of experience. Finding the office was a little confusing because it is tucked in a corner but I found it after walking around for a little bit. We pumped out water from the floats and inspected the seaplane for safety before getting in. Actually flying was pretty exhilarating. The instructor is in the copilot seat to help when things get tricky but for the most part you are at the wheel. We were able to do multiple landings and takeoffs on surrounding lakes. If flying wasn't so expensive I'd like to do it more often. This time I was able to take advantage of a groupon. read more

Air Trek North - First seaplane flight - Flight Instruction Near Me - Lakeville, Minnesota

I only gave Air Trek 2 stars because my son's flying experience was so great. But here are the reasons we won't be back. There is zero communication. Scheduling a flight takes days of you calling and leaving a message until they finally call you back. Now here we sit waiting for a second lesson and no one is here and the lesson was supposed to have started 58 minutes ago. Of course I called the number and left a message but I highly doubt anyone will call back. Now what do I do? It took weeks for me to get this set up!..... Finally got a call back, the plane is down for maintenance and they forgot to call and tell me. Now we need to reschedule again! 40 minutes of drive time each way and an hour of sitting here waiting is down the drain. Make your own decision if you want to try having a lesson here, I know I'll be making a different one next time. read more