Flight training at Fly Compton Aero Club

The one published rate is wet. Fly Compton is an aero club, but neither membership dues nor whether membership is required to fly are published, so the $155 may or may not be a member rate.

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

   Do I have to join the club to train here, what do dues cost, and is the $155 the member rate or the open rate?

   It is an aero club with no published dues, so the airplane rate may not be the whole airplane cost.

4. 4

   How many instructors does the club have for one airplane?

   A single-aircraft club is constrained by availability, and pace drives the total more than the hourly rate does.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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 Fly Compton'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. Fly Compton is not in it.

What we checked

One airplane, one published rate, and no instruction rate anywhere on the site. Compton is a genuinely underserved airport, which is part of why a listing with a call script is worth more here than no listing at all. Checked August 6, 2026.