A real Cessna 172. A real CAFS instructor. Your hands on the yoke for part of the flight. No experience needed. Walk out with a certificate and a logbook entry.
Pick a time, complete the consent forms, and you're scheduled. Our system auto-assigns aircraft and instructor.
Operations: 06:00–17:00 PHT, Mactan-Cebu (RPVM). Discovery Flights are about 1 hour total.
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Your slot is open. Aircraft and instructor will be auto-assigned at confirmation.
Per Philippine GA regulations and our insurance policy.
No medical certificate required for a Discovery Flight, but we ask a few questions for safety.
CAFS is a CAAP-certified ATO (84-11). These consent forms are part of every flight.
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Payment is currently in test mode — your booking will be confirmed without charge while we finalize our payment provider setup. We will contact you for payment by email or message before your flight.
Any age can sit in the cockpit. The instructor flies — your child learns by doing.
Bring the family. One reservation covers up to three people in a Cessna 172.
You fly where airlines fly. Real tower clearance. Real ATC. Day one.
Register online in advance. Walk past the General Aviation terminal procedures entirely.
Anyone can fly. Becoming a CAFS student is a conversation afterward — from both sides.
A Discovery Flight isn't a tour. It's a pilot's routine — compressed into three-quarters of an hour. Here's what actually happens.
A CAFS instructor meets you and your family. The Cessna 172 is pulled out onto the apron. You'll see the marshal's batons, hear the ground crew, and feel the Cebu heat reflected off the tarmac. This part is already different from any other place you've been.
Your instructor walks through the route, the radios, and what you'll be touching. You'll hear phrases that don't show up in movies — "five-eight-one-two Cebu Approach, taxiing for golf". You'll hear them again in a minute, live on the radio.
Fuel sample in your hand. Oil dipstick. Prop blade, control surfaces, pitot tube. Your instructor points; you verify. Same procedure every airline captain does before every flight.
You'll hear a commercial A320 cleared to line up while you hold short. This isn't simulation — you're sharing the same airspace with the jet that might fly you home tomorrow. Tower's voice. Real time.
The engine note changes from murmur to committed. The runway stripes accelerate. Nose lifts. And for a moment you're climbing above Lapu-Lapu with the water turning turquoise below.
Level cruise. Instructor hands you the controls. Small bank left, small bank right. Pitch up, pitch down. You'll feel how responsive the 172 is — and how forgiving. This is the part people remember for years.
Descent into the pattern. Tower clears you to land. Your instructor flies the approach while you call traffic and altitude. Then the runway fills the windscreen, and the wheels chirp.
Water. A short debrief. An honest note from your instructor about how you did at the controls. Whether pilot training is for you — we both decide together.
You fly from Class-C airspace at Mactan-Cebu International Airport — the same runway the commercial jets use. Most flight schools start in a quiet countryside airfield. CAFS students start where it counts.
The wait is real. So is the experience.
Some kids point at the sky before they can spell the word airplane. There's no minimum age. The instructor flies; your child learns — hands on the yoke, headset on, logbook started.
45 minutes tells you more about a pilot career than a year of brochures. After the flight, your instructor writes an honest note: do you have the instincts? You decide what to do with the answer.
You've wondered about this for twenty years. You don't need to commit. You need one hour to know. Most people leave with either a new hobby on the calendar or a weight lifted off their chest.
Up to three seats, same reservation. Fly together. The front-seat passenger takes the controls; the rear seat sees Cebu from a view the ferries can't match. The certificate dates the day forever.
A voucher with a recipient's name. 12 months to redeem. Transferable. The story they tell afterwards is the gift — the flight is just the excuse.
A Discovery Flight isn't a ride — it's a first logbook entry, a framed memory, and an instructor's honest read on whether flying is for you.
completed a 45-minute Discovery Flight in a Cessna 172 at Mactan-Cebu International Airport, taking the controls during level cruise under instructor supervision.
We don't set a minimum age. The instructor stays in the cockpit and flies primarily. Your child learns by doing — whether that means holding the controls level at 3,000 feet or watching the instruments and listening to tower. What they're ready for, the instructor calibrates in real time.
The best gift a pilot-dream gets is the chance to check it. Our voucher lets the recipient pick their own date, bring family along, and walk out with a printed certificate bearing their name.
Redeemable for one 45-minute Discovery Flight at Mactan-Cebu International Airport. The recipient picks their own date, up to 3 passengers, and a Certificate of Discovery in their name.
We moved the paperwork online so you can walk in, brief, and fly. The airport's security rules still apply — those aren't ours to change — but everything on our side is 5 minutes and a digital signature.
Choose a date and time from our available slots below. Enter passenger details. Submit. Your booking enters our schedule — our staff confirm against instructor + aircraft availability within one working day.
Once confirmed, we email you a private registration link. You complete your medical self-declaration, liability waiver, data-privacy consent, and (if a minor) parent digital signature — all with a canvas signature in your phone browser. No paper. Nothing to bring on the day.
Arrive at MCIA General Aviation terminal 15 minutes before your slot. Wait in the lounge — message us on arrival. A CAFS staff member walks you through security to Hangar 11. 10–15 minutes for aircraft pull-out and pre-flight brief. Tower clearance may add a few. Then takeoff. You walk out with your certificate in hand.
A Discovery Flight isn't an automatic enrollment funnel. After the flight we talk — you judge the flying, we judge the fit. Three outcomes come out of that conversation. All three are fine.
You want to train. We see the fit. Your Discovery Flight fee becomes a credit toward enrollment in PPL, CPL, or the Cadet Pilot Program. Admissions picks up from there.
You want time. Or another flight. Or a simulator session. Your voucher can extend; your record stays open. No pressure calendar. When you're ready, we pick up where we left off.
Some people find the sky thrilling but not their life. That's a good answer. You keep the certificate, the photos, and the logbook entry. The voucher (if from a gift) is transferable to a friend or family member.
Real Cessna. Real tower. Real logbook entry. Your hands on the yoke for part of it.
Afterwards, we both decide what comes next.
