Blue Horizon Aviation is a family-owned Part 61 flight school based at Grand Strand Airport (KCRE) in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It flies a seven-aircraft fleet of Cirrus SR-series airplanes and Cessna 172s, operates seven days a week, and is the only CSIP-certified Cirrus instruction in the Myrtle Beach area.
You must be at least 17 to hold the certificate and able to speak, read and write English. No prior experience is needed.
The FAA minimum is 40 hours of logged flight time plus a written exam and a checkride. We recommend two lessons a week — flying consistently is the single biggest thing that shortens the path.
Start with a Discovery Flight. You fly the airplane, and we write out an estimate for the rest of the certificate before you commit to anything.
You learn to fly and navigate by instruments alone: approaches, holds, the air traffic control system, and the judgment to know when not to go.
A large part of instrument work happens in our simulator, where we can put you in weather and failures that would be unwise, or simply unavailable, in the airplane — at a fraction of the cost of aircraft time.
Our SR20s carry Perspective+ and Avidyne glass and the 172s are IFR-certified, so you can train on the panel you intend to fly behind.
The Commercial certificate raises the standard on everything you already do: tighter tolerances, precision maneuvers, and the professional judgment that goes with flying for hire.
Between the Cirrus SR-series and three Cessna 172s, the hours you need can be built here rather than somewhere else.
From Commercial, most students carry straight on to CFI and CFII and start teaching — which is how the majority of career pilots build the hours to the airlines.
We hold the only CSIP-certified Cirrus instruction in the Myrtle Beach area, so transition training here follows the manufacturer’s standardized syllabus rather than a local interpretation of it.
That covers the SR-series systems, CAPS decision-making, and the Perspective+ and Avidyne panels — end-to-end glass cockpit operation, not just where the buttons are.
It suits an owner moving into a Cirrus, a renter checking out, and any pilot who wants to fly the SR20 or SR22 properly rather than adequately.
The CFI is the certificate that turns flying into a job: you learn to teach from the right seat, and you learn your own flying twice as well in the process.
The CFII lets you train instrument students, which is where a large share of an instructor’s hours actually come from.
Both are trained here at KCRE, seven days a week, so the certificate that turns flying into a job is one you can earn without leaving the airport you learned at.
Tailwheel and high-performance endorsements, and spin training for anyone heading toward the CFI or who simply wants to understand what the airplane does at the edge.
Simulator sessions let us fly weather, failures and instrument approaches on demand, day or night, at a fraction of the cost of aircraft time — useful whether you are a student or a rated pilot staying current.
Ask an instructor which of these fits where you are: an endorsement is usually a few hours of focused work rather than a course, and it is worth knowing which one actually moves you forward.
From first flight to a professional career — we train the whole path.
Blue Horizon quotes your training rather than advertising a headline figure — how often you fly is the biggest thing that moves the number, and the simulator is there to keep it down.
Call us and we'll talk it through — where you are, where you want to go, and what it takes to get there, numbers included.
Serving Myrtle Beach · Little River · Conway
