Flight training at Adventure Flight

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

   Do you train the Private from zero hours, and in what aircraft?Missing from their site

   The site offers basic and advanced training alongside joyrides and warbird tours, and it is not obvious from outside which is the main business.

6. 6

   What do the airplane and the instructor cost per hour?Missing from their site

   Neither figure appears anywhere on the site.

7. 7

   Is the training done in a warbird or a conventional trainer?

   Vintage and tailwheel time is valuable but it is not the cheapest or fastest route to a Private, and the fleet is never named.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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.

10. 10

    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 Adventure Flight's rates. The middle of what 60 California 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. Adventure Flight is not in it.

What we checked

A hybrid operation at Lincoln offering basic and advanced flight training and endorsements alongside joyrides, aerial tours and maintenance on vintage aircraft and radials, with a stated emphasis on stick-and-rudder skills. It publishes no fleet, no certificate list and no price. Listed because it does claim to train, but the balance between training and tour flying is the first thing worth asking about. Checked August 6, 2026.