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Think you could
land a plane?

MIT Flying Club Simulator Landing Contest poster: Tuesday September 29, 6:00 pm, room W20-445, Stratton Student Center

Here is your chance to prove it. Fly an approach on the sim and compete for the smoothest, least fiery landing, with pizza on the club. No experience needed, and you do not have to be a member to show up.

  • DateTue, Sept 29
  • Time6:00 pm
  • RoomW20-445
  • WhereStratton Student Center
Our Mission

Come fly
with us

The MIT Flying Club’s primary purpose is to motivate, encourage, and facilitate an affordable, hands-on experience in flying, for everyone from the curious first-timer to the certificated pilot.

MIT Flying Club
Glass-cockpit panel in flight
Membership

Who can join?

Flight simulator training

MIT Flying Club is open to all student aviation enthusiasts in the Cambridge/Boston area. Join us for informal gatherings to discuss all things aviation, attend lectures and fly-outs, or simply network.

What We Offer

Take flight

Piper Archer N43375 on the ramp
  • Exciting aviation activities like fly-outs in the Boston and Massachusetts area
  • Opportunities to network, share, and learn about flying
  • Access to navigational and instructional materials, aviation books, headsets, U.S. sectional maps, and airport facility directories
  • Hangartalks by career pilots and other aeronautics experts
Gallery

Moments from
the flight line

Fly-outs, hangartalks, first solos, and everything in between.

What We Do

Hangar talks
and fly-outs

Monthly Hangar Talks with working pilots, simulator nights, and trips out to the airfield. Everything is free and everyone is welcome.

Learn to Fly

Flight schools
near MIT

Where club members train, ordered by driving distance. We do not list prices, because we are not endorsing one school over another.

East Coast Aero Club

New England's largest

~15 mi25-30 min

  • Hanscom (KBED), Bedford
    also Nashua NH (KASH), Norwood (KOWD)
  • Cessna 172 & 182 (G1000), Piper Warrior / Archer / Arrow / Seminole, Cirrus SR20 & SR22, Super Decathlon, helicopters
  • Both, steam and G1000

Horizon Aviation

Cessna Pilot Center

~20-24 mi30-40 min

  • Norwood Memorial (KOWD)
    also Warwick RI (KPVD)
  • 13 Cessnas: 152, 172 (R / S / SP), 172S G1000
  • Both, steam and G1000

Mitiguy Aviation

The only one training Sport Pilot

~25-27 mi40-50 min

  • Minute Man Air Field (6B6), Stow
  • Cessna 172 (x3), Piper Warrior, Piper Cherokee (x2)
  • Both, steam plus G5 and G1000 NXi

Beverly Flight Center

Cirrus Training Center

~26-27 mi35-45 min

  • Beverly Regional (KBVY)
  • Piper Warrior / Archer / Arrow, Cessna 172M & 172N, Cirrus SR20 G6 (2022) & SR20 G7+ (2025)
  • Both, steam Pipers and glass Cirrus

Avier Flight School

Open since 2014

~27 mi~40 min

  • Beverly Regional (KBVY)
  • Piper PA-28 family: Archer, Warrior, Cherokee; Cirrus SR22
  • Both, steam Pipers and glass Cirrus

FCA Flight Center

At KFIT since 1999

~45 mi~60 min

  • Fitchburg Municipal (KFIT)
  • Cessna 172 (x4), Cessna 152, Piper Arrow (PA28R), Cirrus SR20 & SR22
  • Both, steam Cessnas and glass Cirrus