Flight training at Pontiac Flying Service

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 instruction rate?Missing from their site

   The Warrior's wet rate is published and nothing on the site prices the instructor.

4. 4

   Is the Warrior the only rental airplane?

   The rental page shows one tail, and a single-airplane school has different scheduling realities than a fleet.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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 Pontiac Flying's rates. The middle of what 13 Illinois 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. Pontiac Flying is not in it.

What we checked

Crawled 27 pages on August 9, 2026, including two rate paths that neither the sitemap nor the navigation links to. One airplane, published wet, with a full avionics list and no instruction rate.