Flight Training Rates & Detailed Prices

• All rates are wet. Fuel is included unless fuel exceeds $5.75/gal.
• Billing is based on Hobbs time, which means engine-running time.
• Pilot Rise uses pay-as-you-go billing.

• A $1,500 refundable security deposit is held on your account.
• The deposit is not prepayment for flight hours.
• The deposit is refundable minus any outstanding charges.
• If you choose not to leave the deposit, aircraft rates increase by $10/hr.

• Block rates usually require large non-refundable prepayments.
• Pilot Rise avoids lock-in contracts, non-refundable block hours, and required large prepayments.
• The standard model is pay as you go with published pricing.

The Basic Aviation Training Device is free for enrolled Pilot Rise students who have received training from us in the previous 30 days.

If you are training with an instructor, instructor time is still billed. Non-students: $30/hr.

• Airport fees incurred during a rental are billed to the renter. During training, Pilot Rise procedures avoid airports with known fees when practical.
• Minimum billing uses the 1:5 rule. A 24-hour reservation with 1.0 flown = 5.0 billed.
• Students are financially responsible for damage, loss, or liability resulting from their actions.
• Pilot Rise may charge a $100 policy-violation fee, though it is typically waived when a mistake is self-reported and unintentional.

• Instruction, including flight and ground, is billed hourly.
• All flights include 0.6 hr of ground instruction for pre-flight and post-flight work.
• Additional ground is billed when classroom ground instruction is provided or a lesson requires extended ground time.
• Classroom instruction is billed from the scheduled start time or the actual start time, whichever comes first, until the lesson is complete.

• The Early Bird or Night Owl rate applies to the full flight instruction block when the flight departs before 6:30am or lands after 8:30pm.

• Initial CFI training uses the $90/hr CFI training rate.
• Spin endorsement-only training adds a $150 spin-training surcharge.
• Foreign-student TSA and SEVIS paperwork time is billed at the applicable instructor hourly rate.

• Cancel with less than 36 hours notice: $200.
• No-show within 2 hours or no-show: +$50.
• Sessions longer than 3 hours may incur multiple late-cancel fees.

• Credit and debit card surcharge: 3.3%.
• Late payment: 2% interest per week after 4 business days late.
• Refund by check: $25 processing fee.
• Refund by Zelle: free.
• Billing discrepancies should be reported within 24 hours if you believe you were overcharged.

• Accounts with no flying or training activity for 12 months and a balance over $200 enter the Grandfathered Rates Program.
• To keep access to any current grandfathered pricing, materials, or perks for active students, inactive accounts pay a $10/month membership fee.
• When the balance is fully used or refunded, grandfathered status ends.
• Grandfathered rates do not lock in old prices. They only preserve access to any legacy pricing or perks currently offered.

These items only apply to students receiving financing.

• Early termination fee: $500.

• Cessna 150: $130.
• Cessna 172: $150.

• Standard headset: $10/flight.