Flight training at Aviation Academy of Louisiana

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

   What does each aeroplane rent for, and what does instruction cost per hour?Missing from their site

   The academy names its whole fleet, tail by tail, and prices none of it.

6. 6

   Is the Part 141 approval for the airplane courses, the helicopter courses, or both?

   It trains both, on different fields, and the Part 141 heading sits on the airplane page.

7. 7

   Which base would I actually fly from?

   Four locations, split by aircraft type: New Iberia headquarters and Gonzales are helicopter bases, Seaway at Acadiana Regional and Abbeville are the airplane bases.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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.

10. 10

    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 Aviation Academy of Louisiana's rates. The middle of what 6 Louisiana 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. Aviation Academy of Louisiana is not in it.

What we checked

The most completely described fleet in Louisiana with no price on any of it: four Cessna 172s by tail number and avionics fit, a Piper PA-30 twin, and a Cessna 182RG as the complex trainer, plus helicopters. A 24-page crawl on August 13, 2026 followed 33 links off the fleet page and probed 23 rate paths without finding a figure. Four bases across the state.