Mountain Institute

About North-Aire North-Aire is an F.A.A. approved Part 61 and Part 141 flight school. North-Aire has earned a reputation for providing some of the finest flight training available, with the individualized attention that all students require. Our facilities include classrooms, a student lounge, and a computer testing room. The lounge provides a place to relax and study before and after daily training. There is also a cafe in a nearby building. The Prescott area is ideally suited for professional pilot training. The surrounding area, with its spectacular terrain, provides students the opportunity to experience flying in and around several different types of environments. Airport radar service areas, terminal control areas and airport traffic areas are all located nearby North-Aire's base of operations is Ernest A. Love Field, Prescott Municipal Airport, which is tower-controlled class Delta airspace with limited radar services, has published instrument approaches and is operational 24 hours a day. Prescott has parallel runways and a crosswind runway, eliminating departure and arrival delays often found at many other airports. The Prescott and Phoenix areas offer a multitude of published instrument approaches such as Instrument Landing Systems, Localizer, Localizer Backcourse, VOR, VOR/DME, NDB, RNAV, GPS and PAR approaches. This provides our students with the opportunity to fly every type of published instrument approach available in the United States. The area Flight Service Station is also located on the airport which makes it simple to get a personalized flight briefing. North-Aire is a designated testing site for Laser Grade Computer Testing. This gives our students the opportunity to take each of the required FAA knowledge ( written ) exams on the premises. Practice tests are available on our personal computers, allowing each student to practice before each of the FAA written examinations.

The Orme School of Arizona is an educational facility that serves students in kindergarten through grade 12. Established in 1929, it is a college-preparatory school that is spread across an area of more than 25,000 acres. The school provides programs in geology, astronomy, environmental science and biology. The Orme School of Arizona offers several sports activities, such as wrestling and tennis. Its Phillips Library contains books, magazines, newspapers and periodicals. The school s Willits Gymnasium features football, baseball, softball and soccer fields. The Orme School of Arizona conducts summer camps that provide various activities, including ceramics and arts and crafts. It operates the Orme School Parents Association.