Flight training at Flying Academy Van Nuys

Flight instruction: $64/hr

The CFI charge is $64 an hour. Aircraft are sold inside packages rather than by the hour, and renter insurance is added at $9/hr in the 152 and $12/hr in the 172, which is a surcharge and not a rental rate.

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

   What does the 152 or the 172 cost per hour outside a package?Missing from their site

   Only the instructor and the insurance surcharge carry hourly figures.

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 Flying Academy VNY's rates. The middle of what 59 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. Flying Academy VNY is not in it.

What we checked

The Van Nuys base of an international academy chain, publishing a CFI rate and per-hour insurance but no aircraft rate. Crawled September 5, 2026.