Flight training at FLY8MA Pilot Lodge

1. 1

   What do you charge per hour for flight instruction, and is ground instruction billed at the same rate?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site. Ground is often billed separately and at a different rate.

2. 2

   Does the instructor rate change for the Instrument, Commercial, or CFI, or is it flat across everything?Missing from their site

   Plenty of schools charge more for advanced instruction. A flat rate quoted for the Private can climb later.

3. 3

   What is the hourly rate on your cheapest trainer, and which airplane is that?Missing from their site

   This is the number that is missing from the site, and it is the largest line on your bill.

4. 4

   Is that rate wet or dry, meaning does it include fuel?Missing from their site

   A dry rate and a wet rate are not comparable. Dry rates can run $40 to $60 an hour lower for the same airplane.

5. 5

   What does in-person flight training at the lodge actually cost per hour?Missing from their site

   FLY8MA prices its online courses to the dollar and publishes nothing for the flying in Alaska.

6. 6

   Is the lodge a certificate course or a flying holiday?

   It sells overnight stays in a converted DC-6 alongside training on a 115-acre property with two private runways, and the balance between the two decides whether this is a school for your purposes.

7. 7

   Do you offer block rates or prepay discounts, and what is the refund policy if I stop partway?

   Block discounts are common and rarely published. The refund terms matter more than the discount.

8. 8

   What do you charge for the written test, the checkride, and the examiner's fee?

   The DPE fee alone runs $800 to $1,200 in most of the country and is almost never in a quoted hourly rate.

9. 9

   How many trainers and how many full-time instructors do you have right now?

   Availability decides your pace, and pace decides your total more than the hourly rate does.

What to compare their answer against

Not FLY8MA's rates. The middle of what 4 Alaska schools charge, to hold your phone quote against.

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. FLY8MA is not in it.

What we checked

PRIMARILY AN ONLINE GROUND SCHOOL. FLY8MA sells over thirty online courses priced between roughly $149 and $500, and runs an Alaska lodge with two private runways and a converted DC-6 to stay in. Its in-person flying is not priced. The crawler flagged it as a likely rate card because its blog explains what training costs GENERALLY, in worked examples using invented figures; none of those is FLY8MA's rate, and none is recorded here. Checked August 6, 2026.