What flight training costs at Georgia flight schools

Every listing shows the school's own published rates with the source and date, next to an honest PilotBound estimate for your Private pilot certificate. Add any school to your plan to map your whole route on their real rates.

Search, filter by city, and sort by cost. Each card marks where it falls among the state's schools on cost. Estimates are ours, not quotes, and we are not affiliated with these schools. See a wrong number? Every card has a correct-this-listing link.

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Totals to reach your Private goal at this pace. Estimates use PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists and FAA minimums where it does not, applied to each school's published rates. They are PilotBound estimates, not the school's quote, and will differ from a school's own figures. How we estimate.

Private estimate range across Georgia

$9.7K more affordablepricier $42.4K

West Georgia Flight School
Part 61
Lowest in GA
Carrollton, GA·westgaflightschool.com
Published rates
$75/hr aircraft (wet)+$60/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$9.7K–$12.8K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Air Adventures Flight Instruction
Part 61
Calhoun, GA·flyaafi.com
Published rates
$145/hr aircraft (wet)+$65/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$14.3K–$18.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Newnan Flight Training
Part 61
Newnan, GA·newnanflighttraining.com
Published rates
$153/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$15K–$19.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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SkyWings Aviation
Part 61
Gainesville, GA·skywingsaviation.net
Published rates
$165/hr aircraft (wet)+$55/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$15K–$19.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Airventures
Part 61
Columbus, GA·airventures.net
Published rates
$170/hr aircraft (wet)+$65/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
Airventures' published aircraft rates are wet; 9% sales tax is added to aircraft rental (instruction is tax-exempt) per their site.
PilotBound estimate · Private
$15.8K–$20.9K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Horizon Aviation
Part 61
Peachtree City, GA·horizonaviationga.com
Published rates
$175/hr aircraft (wet)+$60/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
Horizon's rates are 10-hour-block (fuel included); a walk-up rate is not published. The $175/hr rate is the Cherokee; the Archer runs about $195/hr per Horizon's own published program estimate.
PilotBound estimate · Private
$15.8K–$21K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Augusta Aviation, Inc.
Part 61
Augusta, GA·augustaaviation.com
Published rates
$185/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
Augusta Aviation's published rates are wet; sales tax is added on top per their site.
PilotBound estimate · Private
$17K–$22.5K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Skybound Aviation
Part 61 & 141
Largest fleet
Atlanta (Chamblee), GA·skybnd.com
Published rates
$205/hr aircraft (wet)+$70/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$18.2K–$24.1K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Spirit Aviation
Part 61
Thomson, GA·spirit-aviation.com
Published rates
$217/hr aircraft (wet)+$73/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$19.1K–$25.3K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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Centennial Aviation Academy
Part 61
Atlanta (Chamblee), GA·flywithcaa.com
Published rates
$229/hr aircraft (wet)+$99/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$21.1K–$28K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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American Air Flight Training
Part 61
Atlanta (Chamblee), GA·fly-aaft.com
Published rates
$295/hr aircraft (wet)+$235/hr instructor
Verified July 6, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate · Private
$32K–$42.4K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees. An estimate, not a quote.
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How these estimates work

We apply one consistent method to every school: PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists (like the Private and Commercial) and FAA minimums where no credible public data exists (like the Instrument and CFI), times that school's published aircraft and instructor rates (linked on every card, with the date we verified them), plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out. Holding the hours model identical across schools means the only thing that changes card to card is the school's actual rates.

So the number is PilotBound's estimate, not the school's quote, and it will differ from a school's own cost figures, which are often based on FAA-minimum hours. The schools do not set or endorse it. The result is a range, not a promise.

Want a number tied to your own pace and aircraft choice? Run the estimator or read the full methodology.

These estimates are ours, not the schools' quotes, and we are not affiliated with the schools. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime. Disclaimer & removal policy.