5B Aviation, LLC.

5B Aviation, also called Five Bravo Aviation, is a flight school and fixed base operator based at Duncan Airport KDUC in Duncan, Oklahoma. The company teaches people to fly and also serves general aviation customers with fuel, facilities and aircraft support on the airport grounds.

The flight school focuses on private pilot instruction. Students can begin training before they are sixteen, but they must be at least sixteen years old to fly alone and seventeen to earn a private pilot certificate. They must read, speak and understand English, pass a medical exam with an Aviation Medical Examiner and pass the FAA written test with a score of at least seventy percent.

The FAA requires a minimum of forty hours of flight time for a private pilot license. At least twenty hours must be with an instructor, including three hours of cross country training and three hours of night training that includes a night cross country. Students must complete five hours of solo cross country flight, ten hours of solo flight overall and pass both an oral test and a flight test.

Training takes place in a Piper Cherokee PA-28-180. This all metal, single engine trainer has low wings and tricycle landing gear. For multi engine training, the school uses a Piper Seminole PA44-180. Piper designed the Seminole as a twin trainer with retractable landing gear and variable pitch propellers. The avionics in the Seminole match those in the Cherokee so students can transition between the two aircraft with less difficulty.

The school also operates a RedBird MCX full motion simulator. This device has dual control loading yokes and dual rudder pedals so a pilot and copilot can train together at the same time. It can be used for multi crew practice and for honing flight skills before flying the actual aircraft. The simulator has wrap around visuals and quick change cockpit configurations.

Besides flight training, 5B Aviation offers FBO services, aircraft maintenance and aircraft rental. Customers can learn to fly, rent an aircraft or have maintenance work completed in one place. The business is open seven days a week. After hours call out service is available for customers who need assistance outside normal hours.

Students who want a commercial license can use the Seminole to meet the FAA requirement for at least ten hours in a complex aircraft. This training can also add a complex endorsement and a multiengine class rating to a pilot certificate. The school provides online scheduling for training sessions.

Services

• Flight training
• Private pilot instruction
• FBO services
• Aircraft maintenance
• Aircraft rental
• Simulator training
• Multi engine training