Bob Miller Flight
 Training, Inc.


Buffalo-Lancaster Regional Airport
Lancaster, NY  (KBQR)
716-864-8100
rjma@rjma.com

Our unique flight training resources

* Late model, glass panel (Garmin G1000) equipped aircraft.

* Experienced, personally committed, professional instructors.

* Training conducted in the actual, real world environment.

* Intensive curriculum making flight training affordable.

* Specialized residential opportunities for out-of-town pilots.

* Train for private, LSA, instrument, commercial, CFI, and ATP.


Our training philosophy . . .

Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc. (BMFT) has one very simple but critically important goal.  That goal is to provide each of our training pilots with the aeronautical decision making and flight maneuvering skills to remain safe under all circumstances aloft.

Our flight training philosophy differs substantially from other more traditional flight schools.  We embrace the concept of scenario-based training based upon the FAA/Industry training  (FITS) model.  Rather than having our students go through rote training in local practice areas, each training flight is an actual missions in real weather to distant airports. 

By so doing, our students learn in the national airspace system where they will one day operate on their own.  Our training destinations range from large east coast cities, to regional airports with delightful cafes, to mountain airstrips.   

We view the vagaries of weather as opportunities to impart critical skills rather than as reasons to remain sequestered in desk-top flight simulators and classrooms.  Our training pilots learn how to make accurate go/no-go decisions, thereby minimizing the impact of weather as a major risk factor to aviation.  Unlike other flight schools, we believe that the cockpit is the BEST classroom, for it is here that our training pilots will develop their proficiency.


Our flight training professionals . . .

BMFT employs only certificated flight instructors (CFIs) who have real-world experience in the national airspace system.  Unlike many other flight schools, we do NOT employ inexperienced instructors fresh from being trained themselves and who choose to instruct solely to build necessary flight time to qualify for corporate or airline pilot jobs.  Our instructors are professional pilots who happily share their aeronautical experiences with each of their students.

The school is led by Bob Miller, CFII, ATP.  Bob has been actively flying airplanes for over 30 years and has been teaching full-time for the past 10 years.  He holds instrument, commercial, and airline transport pilot certificates and has logged over 8,000 hours of accident-free flight. He is also a Cessna Aircraft Company factory authorized transition instructor for its new high performance Cessna Corvalis aircraft.  This is the fastest single engine, fixed gear, piston aircraft on the market today.  Bob also holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the City University of New York.

Bob was recently inducted into the Western New  York Aviation Hall of Fame for his contributions to aviation education and flight safety.  In addition, Bob's weekly Aero-News Network flight training podcasts are listened to by over 20,000 pilots around the world.  He is also a contributing editor for IFR Magazine.

Bob also serves as Buffalo, NY's CBS Television affiliate WIVB Channel 4’s aviation analyst.  He has also appeared on the ABC Good Morning America and NBC Today Show programs as an aviation expert. 

Bob also publishes a monthly online flight training publication that is read by over 15,000 pilots around the world.  Titled “Over the Airwaves,” this widely acclaimed publication is rich with flight safety messages.   You can access “Over the Airwaves” at http://OverTheAirwaves.com


Cessna Pilot Center

BMFT is one of a national network of officially designated Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs).  This formal affiliation with the Cessna Aircraft Company affords us access to the latest in computer-based, online instructional programs.  This interactive system enables us to monitor the progress of each of our students as they advance at their own pace through a carefully designed home-study ground training curriculum. 

Equally important, our CPC computer-based learning program dramatically reduces both the time and cost of learning to fly or advancing through the pilot ratings.


Our flight training aircraft . . .

Unlike many flight schools that use air-weary, round-gauge relics of an earlier era, our training aircraft use only late model aircraft with 21st century instrument panels.  Our aircraft are equipped with glass panels (Garmin G1000), uplink NEXRAD weather images, traffic and terrain collision alert systems, autopilots, and leather interiors.

Our training fleet includes new and late model G1000-equipped Cessna 172SPs for primary and advanced instrument training.  In addition, we also provide Light Sport training in a 2009 "Navigator 600LS."  See photos below:



 


Our flight training is remarkably affordable

We use an intensive training model that instills critical skills in minimum time.  Rather than stringing students along in a time-consuming (and expensive) fashion, training pilots move quickly from one level of learning to the next with no interruptions or delays.  Training, again, is provided in the real-world, national airspace system.  It is here that learning is optimized.

Convenient financing is available.  Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc. offers low interest loans to make learning to fly or advancing through the pilot ratings remarkably affordable.

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BMFT's affiliation with Mountain State University also enables flight students who are enrolled in on-line degree granting college courses to use higher education financial assistance to help underwrite their flight training expenses.


Our flight training is individualized

Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc. tailors its curriculum to the unique needs of each of its training pilots.  Early morning to late evening, week days, and week-end training times enable even the busiest business executive or professional to fit flight training into his or her schedule.


Train and earn a college degree at the same time . . .

Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc. is affiliated with Utah Valley State College (UVSC), an accredited four-year college that is ranked among the top five comprehensive public colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report. 

UVSC's Global Aviation Degree Program has received national awards from the University Continuing Education Association for innovative quality curriculum and student support system. 

This online education program offers a two-year Associates in Applied Science degree and a four-year Bachelor of Science in Aviation.  BMFT enrolled students are eligible for all traditional financial aid including scholarships, grants, VA benefits, and other federal assistance.

Learn more about UVSC's Global Aviation Degree Program by clicking HERE.


Flight Training Opportunities . . .

Sport Pilot Certificate

Sport Pilot is the new way to fly that is easier, more affordable, safe, and loads of FUN! Sport Pilot enables enthusiasts to learn to fly and gain access to aircraft in half the time and for half the cost of previous alternatives.  In fact, you can learn to fly with as little as 20 instructional  hours!

Click HERE to learn more about our sport pilot training program.

Private Pilot Certificate

BMFT, Inc.'s accelerated training curriculum can lead to a Private Pilot certificate in as little 30 days and at a cost far below traditional flight programs that stretch the training out over four to six months or more. 

Click HERE to learn more about this accelerated private pilot training program.


Instrument Rating:

Learning to fly safely in the clouds, solely by reference to flight instruments, requires real-world flight experience rather than simulations that are often used in traditional flight schools.  BMFT, Inc. equips each instrument pilot with both the skills and the confidence to fly safely through inclement weather.

Click HERE to learn more about our accelerated instrument training program.


Commercial Certificate: 

The commercial certificate enables pilots to be paid for the their piloting services.  Again, BMFT, Inc.'s accelerated commercial curriculum can lead to a commercial certificate in just a matter of weeks.


Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) and Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificates:

Students enrolled in BMFT can progress right up through the coveted CFI and ATP ratings.  Their real-world experience gained through this training prepares them for professional careers in the aviation industry.


Specialized Training . . .

Advanced Maneuvers in aircraft certified in the NORMAL category:

It is not necessary to take aerobatic training to develop effective spin awareness and recovery skills.  Instead, acquiring mastery of cross-control and accelerated stalls in any aircraft can instill powerful anti-spin and spin recovery skills.

Similarly, landing in gusty crosswinds need no longer be a nail-biting, anxiety producing experience.  Bounced and ballooned landings can become a things of the past for pilots who train aggressively in challenging surface winds.

Our Advance Maneuvers training is designed to develop consummate aircraft control skills in flight attitudes that never exceed 60 degrees of bank or place the aircraft in flight regimes not permitted by its certification limits. 


Becoming a Garmin G1000 Power User:

Today's airplane is glass panel equipped.  If yours is equipped with a G1000 or you plan on flying a G1000 equipped airplane, this training is for you! 


Advanced Training in High Performance Aircraft:

BMFT provides factory authorized transition training in the Cessna Corvalis, the fasted fixed-gear, single engine aircraft in the skies today.


Exciting Cross-Country Training Itineraries

Click on each of the cross-country training itineraries for details of each:

New York City Airport Tour

 

NY Adirondack/Vermont Mountain Tour


Residential Training

Come spend a weekend or a week of concentrated new or advanced pilot rating training, refresher training, or rating finish-up training. 

We have a corporate rate at the Asa Ransom House, a lovely turn-of-the-century bed & breakfast located just 15 minutes from our airport at 10529 Main Street (Route 5), Clarence, NY 14031.  Call 716-759-2315 for reservations. Be sure to tell them that you are with Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc.

Call or email today for more information about Bob Miller Flight Training, Inc.

Bob Miller, CFII, ATP
Buffalo-Lancaster Regional Airport (KBQR)
rjma@rjma.com
716-864-8100