Flight training at Robbins Aviation

Flight instruction: $65/hr

Ground and flight instruction are both $65/hr in the school's own Private Pilot cost breakdown. The same breakdown gives aircraft rental as a total, about $7,800 for about 60 hours, with no hourly rate, no airplane named and no wet or dry wording, so no aircraft rate is recorded.

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   Which airplane would I train in, and what does it rent for per hour, wet or dry?Missing from their site

   The cost breakdown gives a 60-hour rental total and never the airplane or the hourly rate behind it.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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 Robbins's rates. The middle of what 5 Nebraska 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. Robbins is not in it.

What we checked

A flight school and pilot-services company at Scottsbluff that prices its instructor and gives its airplane only as a course total. The flight-training and aircraft pages are unlinked and were reached by probe. Crawled across 6 pages, September 5, 2026.