Flight training at Hutton Aviation

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

   Is the Cessna 150 still $150/hr wet, and what does the 172 cost?Missing from their site

   The only rental figure anywhere is a passing mention in a blog post about buying the aeroplane, and the 172 has no figure at all.

6. 6

   What does an instructor cost per hour?Missing from their site

   No instruction rate appears on any page.

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 Hutton's rates. The middle of what 4 Mississippi 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. Hutton is not in it.

What we checked

NOT IN AOPA's Mississippi list; found by the non-AOPA sweep. Two aeroplanes, a 1975 Cessna 150M and a 1969 Cessna 172K, both named with tail numbers and neither priced on the fleet page. The crawl was capped by a ten-second delay at 9 pages of 26. Checked August 6, 2026.