Welcome to the wonderful world of aviation. Orient Flight School is an FAA Part 141-approved flight training facility, located at Homestead General Aviation airport (X51), just outside the Miami metro area. The airport is just minutes away from the best attractions South Florida has to offer, including the Everglades, the Keys, and Miami’s fabulous beaches and nightlife.
With an abundance of sunny days and an average annual temperature of 75 degrees, we have the perfect weather to earn your Private Pilot License, ATP, or anything in between. And here’s the team that will make it happen for you.
Yogini Modi – Owner
Yogini Modi began her aviation career as a young woman flying gliders in her native India. She continued to fly after joining the Indian Army, earning a spot as an instructor pilot in the Indian Army’s Micro-Light Aircraft program.
Achieving the rank of Major, Yogini’s leadership and piloting skills were put to the test in the Indian Micro-Light Cross Country Expedition where she established several records, including the longest crossing of India (1,211 nm) and longest crossing by an Indian woman (a first).
Yogini continued to excel as a pilot, participating in the International Fleet Review of 2001 at Mumbai, India airshow and flying in Air Race India in 2002. Yogini is currently working with a Part 135 charter operator in South Florida while flight instructing full-time at Orient Flight School.
Bryan Shelton – Chief Pilot
Being a pilot runs in the family for Dallas, Texas native Bryan Shelton. His grandfather fought and survived WWII from the cockpit of a military aircraft and later flew for Panagra Airlines after the war. Bryan’s father, an A&P mechanic and accomplished pilot in his own right, recently retired from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Following his father’s footsteps, Bryan became an A&P mechanic and commercial pilot, launching an aviator career that would find him working with crop dusters over land, charter jets overseas and even running lead mechanic on a Skyship 600 airship. Along the way he added a seaplane rating to his license.
Bryan has every flight instructor certificate available and lots of experience teaching students in traditional round dial “steam gauge” cockpits as well as the “all glass” panels found in modern aircraft (and being retrofitted to more and more legacy cockpits). He currently works as a contract pilot along with his full-time flight instruction duties as Chief Pilot at Orient Flight School.
So now you know why Orient Flight School has become a leader in South Florida’s flight training industry, and that’s no accident. As you can see, aviation is part of our DNA and we’ve built our reputation one successful new pilot at a time.
Now it’s your turn. Call us today at
(786) 309-2359 , so we can get you in the air tomorrow.
