Flight training at Hawk Aviation

Both rates are published explicitly as dry rentals, so fuel is charged separately and the real hourly cost is meaningfully higher. An AATD simulator is $60/hr plus the instructor.

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

   Your published rates are dry. Roughly what does fuel add per hour on the trainer?

   The published figures leave fuel out, so they understate the real hourly cost until you add it.

4. 4

   What is the instructor rate per hour, and is multi-engine instruction priced above it?Missing from their site

   Both aeroplanes are priced and instruction is not, and Hawk's own navigation offers Multi-Engine, CFII and MEI.

5. 5

   What does fuel add to the dry rate in practice?

   Both rates are explicitly dry, so the published figures are not comparable to the wet rates most schools quote.

6. 6

   What does the twin cost per hour?

   Hawk offers Multi-Engine and MEI training and publishes no twin 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 Hawk Aviation's rates. The middle of what 8 Minnesota 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. Hawk Aviation is not in it.

What we checked

One of the few schools in this sweep publishing DRY rates and saying so twice. Its navigation runs to Multi-Engine, CFII and MEI, so it trains further than most operators this size, and it prices neither the instructor nor the twin. The $60 a crawl finds here is the simulator, which the page itself says excludes the instructor. Checked August 14, 2026.