Flight training at Arizona Flight Training and Instruction

Flight instruction: $75/hr

A one-instructor operation that publishes a flat $75/hr for flight and ground instruction across every course, and says outright that aircraft rates vary and must be asked for. The instructor travels to the student's home airport.

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   Which airplane would I fly, and what does it cost per hour?Missing from their site

   The instructor rate is flat and published; the airplane is explicitly left to a phone call.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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 Arizona Flight Training's rates. The middle of what 11 Arizona 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. Arizona Flight Training is not in it.

What we checked

An independent instructor around Chandler who publishes one instruction rate for every certificate and no aircraft rate at all, because students fly from whichever field they choose. Crawled September 5, 2026.