Flight training at Rocket Air Flight Academy

The published rates are for the Beechcraft Duchesses, a twin: $335/hr plus tax, falling to $325 in a ten-hour block and $305 in the largest block. No single-engine rate and no instructor rate.

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 a single-engine hour and an instructor hour cost?Missing from their site

   Only the twin is priced, in blocks and before tax.

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 Rocket Air'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. Rocket Air is not in it.

What we checked

A Melbourne academy whose published block rates are all for its Duchess twins. Crawled September 5, 2026.