Flight training at Jackman Air

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

   Do you train landplane pilots, or float only?Missing from their site

   AOPA rates this operator for seaplane alone, and its site carries no readable content, so what it actually teaches is unknown. Seaplane ratings are not something this estimator prices.

6. 6

   What does the airplane cost per hour, and the instructor?Missing from their site

   No figure appears anywhere on the site.

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 Jackman Air's rates. The middle of what 5 Maine 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. Jackman Air is not in it.

What we checked

A SOFT-404 site with no readable content: every probed path returned an already-seen page and the sitemap declares one page. AOPA rates it for seaplane only, which this estimator does not model, so whether it belongs in this directory at all is the first question. Kept rather than dropped because the site could not be read, and dropping on an unread site plus a ratings field is exactly the mistake made in Hawaii. Checked August 6, 2026.