# Essence Flight Academy > Essence Flight Academy (iPhone/iPad app by Alex Abbassi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essence-flight-academy/id6792930772 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Alex Abbassi](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792930774) - Category: Business - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 62 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-25 - Data updated: 2026-10-10 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/essence-flight-academy/id6792930772/reviews.md ## What is Essence Flight Academy? Essence Flight Academy trains pilots at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles - from a first discovery flight to an airline career. This is the academy's app, and anyone can use it. BOOK A DISCOVERY FLIGHT - NO ACCOUNT NEEDED About an hour in the air with an instructor. No experience needed - you fly the airplane. Open the app, tell us when suits you, and book it. $229. SEE WHAT LEARNING TO FLY COSTS Every training program with its price in plain figures: Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Private Pilot Comprehensive, the Turbo Cirrus program, and the nine-month Airline Pilot Program that takes somebody from no license at all to a professional certificate. KNOW THE SCHOOL BEFORE YOU CALL Where we are, when we are open, and what we fly - twenty aircraft including the Cessna 162, Piper Warrior, Piper Arrow, Diamond DA20, Cirrus SR22 Turbo and Piper Seminole, plus a Redbird MCX full-motion simulator. YOUR TRAINING RECORD, IF YOU FLY WITH US Create a free account with your email address and a password you choose - no invitation, and no code from the office. Once you have flown with us, your hours and your signed instruction tickets appear automatically: what was flown, with whom, and in what. FOR OUR INSTRUCTORS AND OFFICE STAFF Staff sign-in leads to the tools the school runs on: flight tickets written up at the aircraft, hours and balances, account statements, fleet and rates, waivers, contracts and the day's schedule. Staff credentials are required for all of it, and none of it is needed to use the app as a customer. TRY THE WHOLE THING FIRST Tap Staff sign in, then Explore the Demonstration, and the operations side opens on sample data - every screen, nothing to sign up for, and nothing that touches a real record. Essence Flight Academy - Van Nuys Airport (VNY), Los Angeles - (818) 960-1285 ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-04 A fresh look that matches the Essence web console: the same colors, fonts and menu. Swipe right anywhere on a main screen, or tap the menu button, to open the menu underneath. Light or Dark follows your iPhone, or choose one with Theme. For staff, every place in the console's menu now has its own screen in the app: Overview, Schedule, Students, Tickets, Accounting, Payments, Fleet, Time Clock, Pay, Business, Reports, Team, Leads, Contracts and Waivers. Each section works with the new system once your school has moved it: sign in once with your new login. Until a section has moved, you get the same screen you had before, or a short note that it is still done in the old admin. Students get the same menu, with every screen they had before. ### 1.0.7 — 2026-09-14 This release rebuilds the Multi-Engine course from the ground up. The course is now a 274-page study guide across 16 chapters, read one page at a time, with your place saved as you go. Every chapter carries diagrams, worked examples, test-taking guidance and checkride insight drawn from the FAA Airplane Flying Handbook, the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, the Commercial ACS and the PA-44-180 POH. More than two hundred diagrams and charts, drawn for this course, including a new three-view of N311EF. Each chapter ends with a ten-question multiple-choice quiz, and the course ends with a fifty-question comprehensive final exam. Flight tickets signed on the phone now keep a PDF carrying both the instructor's and the student's signature, so every signed ticket has a permanent record. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-06 Students can now see their own schedule, cancel a flight, and tell their instructor when they are running late. • My Schedule on your dashboard — your next flight, the ones after it, and a reminder the day before. • Cancel a flight yourself. Inside 24 hours it still cancels; we simply note it. • "I'm running late" — one tap tells your instructor and the front desk. • A progress card: how far along you are toward your certificate. • Send us your medical, certificate, photo ID or insurance from your phone, with the date each one runs out. We remind you before it does. • Real buttons on the sign-in screens instead of plain blue text. • Staff clocking in and out is now confirmed against the airport location. • The student dashboard loads a good deal faster. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-04 Flight tickets now record ground and briefing time as a single entry, matching the way the office books it, so the hours on your ticket and the hours you are paid for are always the same number. Instructors get their own ticket record. Your tickets open on the ones already approved, with a running total of the hours you have signed for. Student hours and payments have been tidied to use the same wording throughout. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-01 Weight and balance. Work out a full weight and balance for any of the school's aircraft. Enter what is on board, the fuel and the conditions, and the app comes back with every stage of the flight, the loading plotted on the published center of gravity envelope, the weight-adjusted speeds, and a plain go or no-go. Save the sheet as a PDF and keep it on your phone. Instructors can do the same for any aircraft, and review the sheets students have filed. Documents to sign. A to-do list of the school's documents that need your signature. Read each one on screen, sign it with your finger, and the signed copy goes to the school. Your instructor can release the solo paperwork to you when you are ready for it. Also in this release: a clearer picture of the hours left on your package, and a notice when you are getting close to using them up. ## Apps similar to Essence Flight Academy | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Sky Schedule OS](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sky-schedule-os/id6772833777) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Business | | [My Aviate](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/my-aviate/id1593873982) | 4.5 (25) | Free | Business | | [Snapdragon Experts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/snapdragon-experts/id6753789948) | 5.0 (4) | Free | Business | ## Related topics [lax flyaway](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/lax-flyaway) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-10.*