Accelerated academy · West Jordan, UT · Checked August 19, 2026
What Upper Limit Aviation's program costs
A full-time, integrated career program sold at a fixed price, not an hourly rate. Every figure below is Upper Limit Aviation's own published price, with the source and the date we read it. This is the published sticker, not a personalized quote.
Website upperlimitaviation.edu
Upper Limit campuses in Utah
West Jordan (U42)
Published program price
$53.4K
Complete Program, zero to instructor (Cessna 152)
Other tracks from $12.8K.
The academy does not publish how hours beyond the estimate are billed. Confirm before enrolling.
The packages quote a flight-hours figure and the school does not say what happens if you exceed it. It does publish its hourly rates, $75 for instruction and $140 to $335 for the aeroplanes, so an extra hour can at least be priced. Checkride and DPE fees are stated to be outside every package.
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 Upper Limit Aviation.
The programs, with sources
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · 282.5 hrs
Checkride and DPE fees are not included. Neither is the 50-hour cross-country PIC requirement that sits inside the Instrument stage.
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282.5 flight hours, 90 ground hours and 57 pre and post-flight hours, Private through CFI including the commercial time build and the multi-engine add-on. The school quotes 12 to 24 months for the full pathway and 12 to 18 to instructor.
PPL · IR · CPL · Multi · CFI · 282.5 hrs
Checkride and DPE fees are not included.
The same programme flown in the Cessna 172 rather than the 152, which is $9,285 more.
PPL · 52 hrs
Checkride and DPE fees are not included.
PPL · 52 hrs
Checkride and DPE fees are not included.
Published breakdown: 40 hours dual at $10,400, 12 hours solo at $2,220, 15 hours of pre and post-flight briefing at $1,125, Jeppesen online ground at $225 and 15 hours of ground instruction at $1,125.
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- How much does Upper Limit Aviation cost?
- Upper Limit Aviation publishes $53,415 for its Complete Program, zero to instructor (Cessna 152), as listed on the academy's own pricing page (August 19, 2026). It publishes 4 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 Upper Limit Aviation's program price?
- Upper Limit Aviation's published programs cover Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, Multi-Engine (AMEL) and Flight Instructor. The headline track plans for about 282.5 flight hours. On what it excludes, the academy states: Checkride and DPE fees are not included. Neither is the 50-hour cross-country PIC requirement that sits inside the Instrument stage.
- What happens if you need more hours than Upper Limit Aviation's program includes?
- The academy does not publish how hours beyond the estimate are billed. Confirm before enrolling. The packages quote a flight-hours figure and the school does not say what happens if you exceed it. It does publish its hourly rates, $75 for instruction and $140 to $335 for the aeroplanes, so an extra hour can at least be priced. Checkride and DPE fees are stated to be outside every package. 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 Upper Limit Aviation 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 Upper Limit Aviation'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 Upper Limit Aviation. Disclaimer & removal policy.
Primary sources: upperlimitaviation.edu