Flight training at Premier Flight Center

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

   What does the Warrior rent for, and what does the 172 rent for? Are those wet or dry?Missing from their site

   They fly both as trainers and publish neither rate, so this is the number your whole budget rests on.

6. 6

   What does the Aztec rent for, and what is the multi-engine instructor rate?

   A twin on the line is what makes the multi rating and the MEI possible here without going elsewhere. Twins typically run double a trainer.

7. 7

   You train through CFI, CFII and MEI. Is there a package price for the instructor ratings, or is it all hourly?

   Schools that take you the whole way often price the instructor block differently from the hourly rate.

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 Premier's rates. Connecticut has too few published rate cards for a state median, so this is all 268 schools we track, to hold your phone quote against.

From the schools here that publish full rate cards, the same sample behind the Flight Training Cost Report. Premier is not in it.

What we checked

Checked seven pages on August 3, 2026, including the learn-to-fly, aircraft and contact pages. The only dollar figure anywhere on the site is a $130 TSA processing fee for foreign students. The fleet is Piper Warrior IIs, Cessna 172s and a Piper Aztec twin, plus a simulator, and the site states Part 61 only.