Flight training at AeroStar Training Services

Mainly an airline type-rating and ATP-CTP provider, whose one general-aviation figure is the 172 at $149/hr wet. Type-rating courses are priced as programs and the instructor is not priced by the hour.

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 an instructor cost per hour in the 172?Missing from their site

   The airplane is priced wet and the instruction is sold only inside type-rating programs.

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 AeroStar's rates. The middle of what 41 Florida 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. AeroStar is not in it.

What we checked

A Kissimmee type-rating and ATP-CTP school that also rents a 172 wet. Crawled September 5, 2026.