This was a great place for a discovery flight! Greg is very kind, attentive, and diligent in his work as an operations manager. All of the instructors I've met are really nice and experienced. In particular, I would like to give a special shoutout to Nitin, who was my CFI on the discovery flight. He provided excellent instructor "service", explaining every concept and question with a calm, reassuring, thorough, and humorous flair. I felt a very tight camaraderie between everyone at Nice Air. All of the staff sincerely cares about providing a positive and supportive environment for each other and, most importantly, their students. The level of encouragement and support truly stood out to me. Flying is certainly expensive, but I'd be hard-pressed to find a place that nails both quality and affordability as this. I'd definitely consider pursuing lessons here in the future. This place may be called Nice Air, but if they ever needed to be renamed in the future, Superb Air is an apt choice. read more

I chose this FBO to support my Angel Flight mission due to Hiro's excellent and friendly service. He was a great help in helping us drop off our patient and getting us a rental car so we could stay overnight. Will certainly stay here again and get all of our FBO needs! read more

I've been flying at Reid Hillview for along time and I flew in out of all of the venues there but I preferred nicer because they're the most laid-back and less money grub and you don't have to pay a monthly fee their planes are just as good or better than the rest of the place so I like that read more

This place is a joke. It is modern day discrimination ! This school is tailored for Japanese students, as they have some sort of agreement with a Japanese school. The examiners are frauds. I had mentioned to my examiner multiple times during the course of my checkride, that I could not understand his questions (due to very heavy accent). He got increasingly angry each time, and would bounce out for a cigarette break every 40 -45 minutes or so. I felt so hopeless. I spent a year preparing for a checkride (after bad weather canceled 3 previous checkrides) and here I am not understanding what the examiner is asking and afraid to ask for clarification. One of the DPE requirements set by the FSDO is that they be proficient in reading writing and speaking in English. This was not the case at all. So I began investigating, I have too much time and felt frauded. I called over 50 students of this examiner ALL JAPANESE, not one Caucasian, African American, or middle Eastern !! After a bit of a conversation with some of his students over email or phone, they admitted to be given help in Japanese. This is against FAA regulations !!! Read the reviews, avoid this place like you would avoid a plague. Unless you are Japanese, then you are welcome. read more

Nice Air strikes the perfect balance between affordability and luxury. They are a very professional operation with a sound maintenance facility that keeps their aircraft in excellent working order. Their aircraft may not be newest out there, but they don't charge "new aircraft" prices either. The important thing is that they know what they are doing and I've always had complete confidence in their equipment, instructors and mechanics. I moved to the Bay Area several years ago and discovered Nice Air while looking for a good place to rent aircraft for recreation as well as furthering my flight training (Commercial and CFI). Their school does attract a large number of students from Europe and Asia but I've also met a good number of other Silicon Valley professionals there and find it a great place to hang out and to just be around other general aviation enthusiasts. I've flown with numerous flight schools and rental operations across the US and have found that they tend to fall into one of three categories: There are the flashy, overpriced places with brand new, expensive aircraft and self-important instructors. Those places never seem to stay in business for long. Then there are the old, dusty places tucked away in the corner of the airport with out of date equipment and out of touch instructors. Those places are just a little too scary for my comfort level! And then there are places like Nice Air that focus on the important things like safety and professionalism, without wasting money on flashy offices etc. These places frequently outlast the competition because they're doing it right. These are the places I feel most comfortable flying with and this is why I enjoy flying at Nice Air and recommend it to others. read more

Great service for your plane. Reed-Hillview is a great airport close to San Jose without the hassle. Great flying school with friendly service and great prices for fuel and any parts or services you might need for your plane. Really nice group of people. read more

I came here for a testing center. This was the worst testing center that I have ever been to. The rude guy at the front would not shut up during my test. Nearly ten feet away I could hear in considerable cussing, loud-mouth, even the word arrogance came through from one of the other girls taking a test outside. What has his problem? How did they even get licensed for professional test taking centers? These guys are a joke. Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid taking a test here, but I had to because of a job application. The job of handing me some sound noise cancelling earpieces would have been nice if you didn't shut up and respected an hour of my test taking time. Reporting you to higher authorities about changing your location. 0 Stars if possible. If you come here don't respect the guy once you are in the testing center, and just focus one your test. You Fail at Servicing Tests. read more

not bad as far as the price goes and generally good place to learn the flight. however, the owner, is an extremely cheap guy. Basically, the whole flight training institute is one person operation. if you have made up your midn to go here, definitely see all the instructors and choose between them -Jessy read more

Amazing pilot learning center! The customer service is fantastic they helped me print some paper work I needed in order to take my test!

Stay away from this school. They are advertised as a low budget flight school, but once you're in, they will find excuses to make you pay more. Have a seat, spare few minutes and read my story. This school has a good relationship with the flight schools in Japan. A lot of international students from Japan come to this school each month, and they are the most important customers for Nice Air. These Japanese students get special treatments from Nice Air such as getting the best airplanes and instructors available for them. These students can get a license or rating within 3 months while non-international students take up to 8-9 months for the same goals. The longer it takes for you to pass, more of your money go to the school. This school creates requirements within the academy that are not required by FAA or any other flight schools. I had a private pilot license from another country already. So I just needed to do a single solo cross-country and a check ride to get a private pilot license (PART 61). Unfortunately, Nice Air assigned me instructors that were not passionate in teaching students as they were doing their job only to become an airline pilot after fulfilling the flight hours, and most of the instructors were illegal to work in the U.S. After about 4 months in at Nice Air, I was still with an instructor that would make me question his legitimacy as an instructor. We had unpleasant conversations as he was dishonest and came to our flight sessions unprepared. He absolutely had no idea which practices to go over during our sessions and when I asked him what he wants me to do, he always said "I don't know." He made me feel like I was wasting my time and money, so I requested the school to assign me a different instructor. After this incident, the chief instructor ordered two stage checks as required by the school policy, despite the fact that I have a PPL with 140 hours logged already; therefore, I do not require these stage checks for FAR Part 61. This made me get very upset at this school for being unfair and adding more inside school requirements for me to pay them for. They had never mentioned about these requirements before to me nor to my instructors. But since I already paid the TSA background check with this school as a provider, I decided to continue with the two stage checks, which was a huge mistake. A new instructor was a much better teacher, and he was kind and patience and was willing to teach me until I fully learned. Thanks to him, I passed my first stage check. The instructor who passed me spoke to me and my instructor face to face that I had passed the check and I can prepare for the second stage check. A month later, I was practicing solo to prepare for the second stage check, and the chief instructor called me to tell me that there was a mistake and I did not pass the first stage that was a month ago and I have to do it again. I was confused and shocked, and started chatting with other students to find out that some of them were told the same before. I couldn't think of any possible reasons they would do this other than wanting to add up more hours required to make more money for themselves. At this point, I decided to leave this flight school and share their unfairness and dishonesty. To get my balance back from the school, I have been calling the owner of the school as he was required to sign the paper work for their office admin. Of course, he ignored all my phone calls and text messages. So when I drove 45 minutes to his office to talk face to face, he asked for my logbook which I did not bring with, to ensure my request was legitimate. He could just confirm this with his employee as they have their own record of my balance in their computer, but he said he wanted to make sure my logbook was accurate, absolutely being disrespectful. If you're not an international student from Japan, stay away from this school. You will end up wasting your time and money and be taught by unprofessional instructors that could risk your exam or even your life. I ended up spending about $5,500 at Nice Air and left the school with no achievements. If I had gone to a different school, I could have gotten my private pilot license and could have saved me about $3,000 or more. The Nice Air owner mixes water in the bathroom hand soaps to save few bucks... He would do anything to save money out of his pocket but take more money out of your pocket. You can tell by looking at the conditions of the planes at this school. If you are still not sure if you should stay away from this school or not, just search on Google how many planes the students and instructors of Nice Air crashed in the last 10 years. read more

Came here and asked several questions. The owner seems annoyed the entire time. Will fly somewhere else

Ok so with my changing work schedule I needed to switch instructors to find someone to train with on weekends. I contacted the folks at this flight school multiple times via email, phone and in person. Not a single response to my request for training or to put me in touch with their CFI staff! I felt like I was given the run around by the owner of this flight school! In contrast, the other flight schools in the area that I contacted replied immediately to my calls and emails about training toward my private pilot license. Yes, the quoted rates are low here at this school but with lack of response or support, one really has to wonder as to the safety or quality of the training provided by this school? Better to look elsewhere for training! read more

These guys are awesome - no membership fees, so just pay as you go - flexible scheduling (on line) and large number of planes available. Great instructors that adapt their pace to your ability/capabilities. Highly recommend Nice Air to anyone wanting to get their private pilot, instrument, mullti-engine, or CFI rating. read more

Good flight instructors. Automated billing system to keep track of your flight hours. Planes are available to fly every day. Great location to learn because to the diversity in air spaces. read more

Not a bad place, I agree. But do be careful. My flight instructor would take over the controls at the slightest provocation (I can still remember his dreaded words "my airplane"). He would take the plane in from the practice area to the landing with me sitting idly by. He was getting his practice and landings on my money and time as I realized later. At the time I thought I was just too much of a klutz to touch the plane. read more

I have a 15 year old son who wants to be a pilot. We went to Nice Air for an introductory flight yesterday. I found the company, the owner and the pilots to be extremely professional and it was a great experience. Yes, Japanese is the primary language spoken, but that did not bother me at all. In my life of doing worldwide business, I find the Japanese to be the most detail oriented, polite and respectful people in the entire world. So I felt just fine getting in a Cessna 172 with the pilot Sho-san and my son. We had a great flight and my son learned so much it was worth every penny. Sho-san taught my son so much and my son was on an adrenaline high for the next 24 hours. So I must disagree with the bad reviews I see about them. As long as you understand that people from other countries "may" have and accent and "might" be hard to understand at sometimes, I encourage you to give them a shot. -VERY SATISFIED CUSTOMER. -Blake read more

I bought fuel (Avgas) at the self serve pump. The machine was broken and did not give a receipt, which I needed for reimbursement. I thought a call the next day to Nice Air would be simple enough to get a receipt - a simple process. To date; 5 calls, one personal visit to the office, and 5 promises to get a receipt and so far nothing.... Horrible follow-up and customer service. Will buy fuel elsewhere - besides the fuel prices at Nice Air are not that competitive. read more