Mastery Training for Owner Pilots.
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Choose the training you need, or hire me for your next trip.
Citation 500 / 550 / 560 Training
- PIC initial / recurrent
- SIC initial / recurrent
- Mastery / proficiency training
Extract every ounce of opportunity from your jet, without exposing yourself to unnecessary risks.
Single-Pilot IFR Mastery
- Three days in your airplane, plus pre-work
Make IFR feel organized instead of overwhelming. Work on weather decisions, flight planning, avionics, and repeatable flows. Then practice changed clearances, diversions, and equipment failures so normal flying takes less effort and you have more capacity for the unexpected.
Initial Instrument Training
Build your instrument rating around the trips you want to fly. Learn precise aircraft control, useful flight planning, and how to interpret weather and choose a workable route, including when the best decision is to wait.
Pilot Services
Your family, your airplane, and your trip deserve personal attention. I arrive early, prepared, and professionally dressed, with the details handled and your passengers’ needs in mind.
Meet Toby Rice.
I help owner pilots master the art of flying in their own airplanes.
I’m an ATP and Master Flight Instructor with 10 years of flying experience across more than 220 makes and models. That includes 5,000+ flight hours and 3,000+ hours of instruction.
My clients often have the certificate and the experience, yet still feel behind the airplane or unsure when the plan changes. We build competence, confidence, and clarity through a practical framework: think and plan, execute, and overcome. I train you for the real world, with capability that goes beyond passing a checkride.
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Your family needs you to be the constant.
You can lead a business, make hard decisions, and take care of everyone around you. Then you get in your airplane and start second-guessing yourself.
You don’t want to feel like the weakest link. You want to know you belong in that seat.
We find what’s causing the hesitation, work on it deliberately, and build the habits you can use when the flight gets demanding. Earned confidence. Something you can back up.
What I believe about trainingBe the foundation.
Even when the wind and waves pick up.
Who I help. Why I do this.
You have the certificate. You may have hundreds or thousands of hours. But something still feels like it has not quite clicked. You want to keep learning without feeling dependent on your instructor.
I help owner pilots build the understanding, judgment, and skill to feel at home in their own airplane.
How I train.
I teach you how to think through the flight. Which questions matter, where to find useful answers, and how to apply them. We prepare on the ground, practice in your airplane, and debrief honestly.
More information alone can mean more noise. Context and a practical framework turn it into insight you can use.
What we work on.
Your planning. Your weather decisions. Your aircraft control. Your avionics. A passed checkride should never become the ceiling of your proficiency.
The goal is to become reliable instead of reliant, with sound reasons to go, change the plan, or stay on the ground.
Read my training philosophy