Train where airlines fly.
Every hour counts twice.
A working international airport from your first lesson — and a training network across the Philippine archipelago. The transmissions you make in training are the same transmissions you'll make in your first line check.
A pilot is shaped by the airspace they grow up in. We chose a working international airport in 1980 — and we've never moved. Every hour you log here is an hour an airline interview panel will recognise.
What MCIA actually sounds like.
Recorded on the live tower frequency at MCIA. Not a simulator. Not a training channel. This is the same radio environment every CAFS student transmits on from solo onward — the same one airline first officers handle every working day.
- Standard ICAO phraseology. The same callouts heard at Heathrow, Changi, Incheon — students learn it under live pressure, not from a workbook.
- Mixed traffic. Cebu Pacific, PAL, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, GA, military — one tower, one frequency, all sequenced together.
- Continuous radio discipline. Hesitation costs a slot. Reflexive readbacks become muscle memory by checkride.
The same airspace
as the airline you'll join.
Every transmission you make in your next 200 hours, an airline first officer is making the same transmission, in the same airspace, on the same frequency.
Most flight schools train at regional airfields and grass strips. CAFS doesn't. From your first walk-around, you're on a hangar ramp that shares ATC with Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, and Emirates — every single sortie.
By solo, the radio is the easiest part of your day. By CPL checkride, the airline interview environment is already your home airport.
One home base.
A nationwide training network.
From our home hangar at Mactan-Cebu, students fly cross-country to 30+ aerodromes across the Philippine archipelago — a different airport, controller, and weather pattern on every sortie.
The training ground is an archipelago. Every cross-country sortie: a different airport, a different controller, a different weather pattern.
A student body from 30+ nations—
across four decades.
From Seoul to Singapore, Delhi to Dubai. Hangar 11 has trained pilots from across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and beyond — every cohort a working international community before they ever join an airline crew.
One campus.
Three ways to start.
Train where airlines fly — from your first discovery flight to a full airline-cadet pathway, all at Mactan-Cebu International.
Book a Discovery Flight
45 minutes in the left seat of a Cessna 172. Take off from MCIA, fly over Cebu, log your first hour.
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From PPL to the integrated airline-cadet pathway — PPL, CPL, IR, ME and ATPL theory, all under CAAP certification.
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