What you can train for at ATP Flight School (Mesa)
Discovery flight
20–30 minutes · you fly
$99–250typical Arizona price
The trial lesson. You sit in the left seat and actually fly, with an instructor beside you. Most schools credit it toward training if you carry on.
Private pilot certificate
60–75 hours in practice
$13,000–20,000industry range, all in
The licence that lets you carry passengers. The FAA minimum is 40 hours; almost nobody finishes in 40, which is why quotes built on it come in low.
Instrument rating
added after the private
$10,000–15,000on top of the private
Flying by reference to instruments, in cloud and at night with real dispatch reliability. The rating that turns a licence into transport.
Commercial pilot certificate
250 hours Part 61 · 190 Part 141
$10,000–20,000+advanced training only
The certificate you need to be paid to fly. Counted from zero, the full career track runs $80,000–120,000 and is normally financed.
Those are the honest industry ranges, not this school’s rate card — no Arizona school we checked publishes one. Ring us and we will get you their actual number, at their price, with nothing added for coming through us.
This is ATP Flight School's Falcon Field campus in Mesa, one of more than 100 ATP locations across the country running the same standardized, accelerated career-pilot syllabus and reached through the same national phone line as ATP's other Arizona campuses in Glendale and Tucson.
Falcon Field itself is a busy, well-established training airport on the east side of the valley, and ATP's program here is the same fast, structured, full-time pathway the brand runs everywhere: built for someone who has already decided on an airline career, not for a casual weekend learner.
What is it good at?
A large, standardized national training organization with a genuine airline-placement track record.
Falcon Field is an established, well-equipped training airport with a long history of flight instruction.
A public review base on Yelp for this specific location, giving you something concrete to read before you call.
What should you go in knowing?
This is a corporate, centralized organization with a shared national phone line, not a single owner-operator you will get to know personally.
Pricing sits at the accelerated-academy tier, well above a typical independent school's hourly rental-and-instruction model.
Built for full-time, fast-paced career training — not the right fit if you want to fly casually at your own pace.
What do the public reviews say?
Yelp shows 22 reviews (checked July 2026). We show that as plain text rather than dressing it up as our own rating, because we did not collect it and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
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