Flight training at Lexington Flying Club

A non-profit member club since 1954, not a school "per se": club-approved instructors are available and none is priced. Aircraft are billed per tach hour to members; restricted membership is a $300 initiation and $45/month for the Cessnas, full membership $600 and $64/month for everything. The site shows a lower out-of-pocket figure per airplane assuming self-serve fuel.

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 do the club-approved instructors charge per hour?Missing from their site

   Four airplanes and both membership tiers are priced; the instructors are not.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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 Lexington Flying Club's rates. The middle of what 5 Kentucky 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. Lexington Flying Club is not in it.

What we checked

Blue Grass Airport's member club, four airplanes billed per tach hour with published dues and initiation fees, and instructors who are approved by the club and priced by nobody. Crawled September 5, 2026.