Flight training at Fly Leadville

The Cessna 182 rents at $225/hr wet to club members and $250/hr to non-members, per the rentals page, which also mentions a 2016 Cirrus SR22T on request. Membership cost and the instructor rate are not published.

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 does the instructor cost per hour, and what are the club dues?Missing from their site

   The airplane is priced for members and non-members and neither the instructor nor the membership is.

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 Fly Leadville's rates. The middle of what 15 Colorado 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 Leadville is not in it.

What we checked

The flying club and school at the highest airport in North America, one Cessna 182 priced wet by membership status, instructor and dues unpriced. Crawled September 5, 2026.