Flight training at Maui Flight Academy

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

   Which aircraft would I train in, and what does it rent for wet?Missing from their site

   The site refers to Cirrus without listing a fleet, and a Cirrus is a materially different hourly cost from a Cessna.

6. 6

   Do you train in a Cirrus, and does that require a CSIP instructor at a higher rate?Missing from their site

   Cirrus training often requires a standardised instructor, which raises the instruction rate rather than the airplane rate.

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 Maui Flight Academy's rates. The middle of what 3 Hawaii 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. Maui Flight Academy is not in it.

What we checked

Crawled across 30 pages on August 4, 2026 with no dollar figure anywhere. The site refers to a Cirrus Instructor and to Future Cirrus Owners without publishing a fleet or a rate. It states plainly that it is NOT AN AIR TOUR, which on Maui is a useful distinction: several operators there sell sightseeing rather than training.