Accelerated academy · New Century, KS · Checked August 13, 2026
What Pilot Instructional Center's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Pilot Instructional Center's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Website pilotinstructionalcenter.com
PIC campuses in Kansas
New Century (IXD)
Published program price
$68.8K
Airline Pilot Track (from zero time)
Other tracks from $7.1K.
Assumes the program's planned hours. Most students fly over the minimums, and the extra flight time is billed separately.
PIC says its prices are based on estimated MINIMUM flight times and that personal progress and checkride readiness change the total, so flying beyond the stated hours costs more.
The academy's own published price. It does not reduce the 1,500-hour airline minimum (only a qualifying degree does). Prices change. Confirm current figures with Pilot Instructional Center.
The programs, with sources
PPL · IR · CPL · CFI · CFII · 215 hrs
The sum of the five phases below, as PIC publishes it, plus time building on top: the track's own headline is "$68,815 + Time Building", and the hour building toward the 1,500-hour airline minimum happens afterwards while working as an instructor. Pricing is based on estimated minimum flight times and excludes FAA testing fees.
Does not reduce the 1,500-hour airline minimum; PIC's own model is to hire its graduates as instructors to build toward it.
PPL · 40 hrs
Three to six months. Priced against 30 hours of training flight, 10 hours solo and 20 hours of ground lessons, with online ground school included.
IR · 45 hrs
Priced against 20 hours of training flight, 25 hours of time building, 10 hours of dual AATD simulator and 20 hours of ground.
CPL · 105 hrs
Priced against 20 hours of training flight, 85 hours of time building, 50 hours of dual AATD simulator and 15 hours of ground.
CFI · 15 hrs
One month, 15 hours of training flight and 25 hours of ground, including advanced spin training.
CFII · 10 hrs
One month, 10 hours of training flight, 5 hours of AATD simulator and 20 hours of ground.
PPL
PIC's entry-level recreational certificate. A Sport Pilot certificate is NOT a Private Pilot certificate and carries tighter limits on passengers, weather and aircraft; it is listed here because it is a real published starting point, and `certsCovered` names the Private only because this project does not model Sport separately.
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- How much does Pilot Instructional Center cost?
- Pilot Instructional Center publishes $68,815 for its Airline Pilot Track (from zero time), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (August 13, 2026). It publishes 7 tracks in total, priced by how much flight experience you start with. That is the published sticker for the program, not a personalized quote, and it is what the academy asks before the fees the sticker excludes.
- What is included in Pilot Instructional Center's program price?
- Pilot Instructional Center's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor. The headline track plans for about 215 flight hours. On what it excludes, the academy states: The sum of the five phases below, as PIC publishes it, plus time building on top: the track's own headline is "$68,815 + Time Building", and the hour building toward the 1,500-hour airline minimum happens afterwards while working as an instructor. Pricing is based on estimated minimum flight times and excludes FAA testing fees.
- What happens if you need more hours than Pilot Instructional Center's program includes?
- Assumes the program's planned hours. Most students fly over the minimums, and the extra flight time is billed separately. PIC says its prices are based on estimated MINIMUM flight times and that personal progress and checkride readiness change the total, so flying beyond the stated hours costs more. This is the question worth asking hardest at any accelerated academy, because the published price and the price a student who flies over the plan actually pays are two different numbers.
- Does going to Pilot Instructional Center lower the 1,500-hour airline requirement?
- No. An accelerated academy does not reduce the 1,500-hour ATP minimum. Only a qualifying aviation degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160, which lowers it to 1,000 hours for a bachelor's or 1,250 for an associate's. What an academy sells is speed and a fixed price to the commercial certificate and instructor ratings, not a shortcut to the airlines. Most graduates then instruct to build the remaining hours.
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Figures are Pilot Instructional Center's own published program prices, shown with the date we read them. They are not a personalized quote, and a student's actual cost will differ with location premiums, the fees the sticker excludes, and pace. Published prices generally assume the program's planned hours; flight training often runs over the FAA minimums, and how extra hours are billed varies by academy (some hold a truly fixed cost, others charge an hourly rate for additional time). Confirm the overage policy with the academy. An accelerated academy does not lower the 1,500-hour airline minimum; only a qualifying degree does, under 14 CFR 61.160. PilotBound is not affiliated with Pilot Instructional Center. Disclaimer & removal policy.
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