Flight training at Wings Flying Club

Both rates are stated wet and billed on Hobbs time. A student pilot membership fee of $100 appears in the club's documents; ongoing dues are not published.

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 instruction cost per hour?Missing from their site

   Both aeroplanes are priced to the tail and no instruction figure appears anywhere, including the club's own PDFs.

4. 4

   What are the full membership dues and the buy-in?

   For a club these usually decide the real cost, and only a $100 student membership fee is published.

5. 5

   What are the two aeroplanes?

   The club prices both by tail number and never names the make or model of either.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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 Wings Flying Club's rates. The middle of what 9 Indiana 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. Wings Flying Club is not in it.

What we checked

A members' club at South Bend that prices both its aeroplanes precisely, wet and on Hobbs, and never says what they are. Note the domain: AOPA lists wingsflyingclub.ORG and the site serves from wingsflyingclub.COM. Checked August 13, 2026.