Flight training at New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training

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 the aeroplane cost and what does the instructor cost, separately?Missing from their site

   The only training figure on the site is a combined dual rate, so neither half of an hourly budget can be worked out from it.

6. 6

   Which aeroplane does that dual figure apply to?

   The fleet runs from three Cessna 152s up to a Piper Seneca twin, and a single "from" price cannot cover that spread.

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 New Orleans Flight Training'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. New Orleans Flight Training is not in it.

What we checked

The one training price on this site is a combined "from $180/hr dual instruction" figure on the home page. THAT IS AN AEROPLANE AND AN INSTRUCTOR IN ONE NUMBER and is not an instructor rate, so nothing is recorded from it. A 30-page crawl found no other figure; everything else priced on the site is a sightseeing tour. Six aeroplanes, three Cessna 152s and a Seneca II among them. Two AOPA rows, one operator. Checked August 13, 2026.