Flight training at Textron Aviation Employees' Flying Club

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

   Can someone who does not work for Textron Aviation join?

   This is an EMPLOYEES' club, so eligibility comes before price and may rule you out entirely.

6. 6

   What are the dues, the buy-in and the hourly rates?Missing from their site

   Its site asks not to be read by software, so none of it could be checked, and a club's fixed costs usually matter more than its hourly 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 Textron Employees' Flying Club's rates. The middle of what 4 Kansas 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. Textron Employees' Flying Club is not in it.

What we checked

AN EMPLOYEES' CLUB, and eligibility is the first question rather than the price: its own stated mission is economical flying for its members, who are Textron Aviation staff. NOTHING HAS BEEN READ about it, because its robots.txt disallows the homepage and we obey that, so zero pages were fetched. Two AOPA rows, at Wichita Eisenhower and Beech Factory, recorded as one. Checked August 13, 2026.