Two Founders, One Flight Dream
— Our Story Begins Here
Who Are We?
Becoming an airline pilot isn’t just about passing exams—it’s about mastering aviation knowledge that will serve you throughout your entire career. At MACH Aviation Academy, we train modular pilots to airline standards, ensuring that you don’t just meet the minimum requirements but develop a deep and practical understanding that will set you apart in the airline industry.
Founded by airline pilots and run by an experienced team of flight instructors and educators, our academy is built on real-world expertise. With over 10+ professional instructor pilots, all with airline and teaching backgrounds, we provide a training experience that blends theoretical excellence with hands-on airline knowledge. (Check out our Instructors)
Our instructors have an average of 10+ years of ATPL theoretical instruction, ensuring that you learn from some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the industry. You’ll gain insights not only from textbooks but from real airline operational experience, preparing you for a smooth transition into commercial aviation. (Check out our ATPL Theory course)
About our Name
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was born in Chrlice (basically nowadays a part of Brno in Czech Republic) on 18.02.1838. He studied at the Gymnasium of Kroměříž and then he became a student of University of Vienna in 1855. He studied physics and medical physiology.
His main contribution to physics was the description and photography of ballistic shock waves with the help of Schlieren-photography. He discovered that if a bullet moves faster than sound, compression is created in a conical surface (if the shape of the bullet was appropriate).
Few know that he was the teacher of Albert Einstein, who was greatly influenced by the Mach-principle when he created his famous General Theory of Relativity.
He died on 19.02.1916 in Vaterstetten, Germany.
Critical Mach number
Critical Mach number is the free stream Mach number at which local speed of the airflow somewhere around the aircraft reaches local sonic speed. Since the local speed of the airflow is always higher than the undisturbed and therefore local speed of sound also reduces, local speed of sound is reached sooner than in the undisturbed airflow. Consequently, critical Mach number of an aircraft is always lower than 1. When reaching critical Mach number, infinitesimal shock waves are created increasing drag a bit. But the limiting Mach number is the so-called Drag Divergence Mach number, which is higher than the Critical Mach number.
MMO (Maximum Operating Mach number) represents the maximum safe Mach number at which shock waves do not influence the stream patters significantly, therefore it is always less than the Drag Divergence Mach number.
Modern airliners – depending on whether they are built for short or long haul – are designed to reach high Mach numbers thereby maximizing the speed of the aircraft and minimizing the time to reach the destination. The cost involved are higher for higher Mach numbers, since it requires higher angle of sweep and more optimized profiles.
However, since for a few hundred nautical miles the time difference is not extensive, short/medium haul aeroplanes are designed to cruise at lower Mach numbers (having lower critical Mach number). For example, Boeing B737 or Airbus A320 family cruises with app. M=0.75 (for cost index 10), but rarely greater than 0.78.
Long haul airliners or business jets cruise at higher Mach numbers to save a significant amount of time (note at cruise altitude changing Mach number of 0.01 represents a very roughly speaking 4 kts of difference of Indicated Airspeed). Some examples of cruise Mach numbers of the aeroplanes our team of instructors fly/rated on:
Business jets:
C650: Cruise Mach number: 0.85
Falcon 7X: Cruise Mach number: 0.90
Falcon 800EX: Criuse Mach number: 0.90
Long Haul:
Airbus A330: Cruise Mach number: 0.81
Medium/Short Haul:
Airbus A300: Cruise Mach number: 0.79
Airbus A320: Cruise Mach number: 0.76
Boeing B737: Cruise Mach number: 0.76
Zsolt Ujházi
40 000 feet up – that just makes me feel alive. I love to enjoy life, have fun, and make meaningful memories.
But above all, I’m a proud dad. I have a little daughter who means the world to me. She’s my everything, my biggest inspiration, and the reason I strive to be better every day.
László Rozgonyi
It may sound like a cliché, but I’ve always dreamed of becoming both a pilot
and an engineer. However, I lacked the funds to pursue that path initially. Fortunately, I was accepted into a state-sponsored training program at the University of Nyíregyháza. After graduating, I became a Flight Instructor and have been working in integrated training programs ever since. In 2016, I secured my first airline job, and by 2018, I was involved in cadet programs as a standardization instructor and project manager. In 2022, I was promoted to Deputy Head of Training for a well-known, airline-sponsored cadet program. As part of this role, I conducted numerous audits of various European flight schools to assess their suitability as providers for the program. In 2024, I left my previous position to join a business jet company and the Hungarian Air Force, seeking to broaden my professional horizons.
I have a passion for teaching theory, and for over 10 years, I’ve been instructing a range of subjects—primarily Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics. I’ve authored two ATPL textbooks—one on Principles of Flight, and another, co-written with István Lénárt, on General Navigation.
While integrated training offers many advantages, not everyone has the flexibility to commit full-time to a pilot course. Based on my experience, modular training often lacks the depth and high standards of airline-level theoretical instruction. That’s why we founded this flight academy: to provide modular students with training that meets—and even exceeds—airline standards reaching academic standards, both theoretically and practically. We’ve assembled our team with great care. Drawing on my extensive experience in theoretical instruction, we selected not only the most knowledgeable and experienced professionals in their fields but also educators who are genuinely passionate about teaching not just in it for the money.
Over the years, I’ve had many hobbies, but these days, I dedicate all my time to flying, instructing, and most importantly, my daughter.
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