Flight training at Action Multi Ratings

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

   Are the prices on your website still current? The site is dated 2019.

   Every figure on the site is at least six years old. Ask before planning around any of them.

6. 6

   What is the Seneca's hourly rate on its own, and what do you charge for the instructor?Missing from their site

   The published $325/hr bundles both, so there is no way to work out either half or to compare against another twin.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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 Action Multi's rates. The middle of what 4 Connecticut 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. Action Multi is not in it.

What we checked

A multi-engine specialist, not a general flight school: all training is in Piper Senecas, and the site refers single-engine students to Coastal Air on the same field. Everything it prices is either a course package or a combined airplane-plus-instructor hour, and the site has not been updated since 2019.