Flight training at Monmouth Area Flying Club

Every rate is billed on the Hobbs and DRY, so fuel is bought on top. Dues are $80 a month. Instruction must come from a club instructor, and the club says those typically charge $35 to $60 an hour, a range rather than a rate, so no instructor figure is recorded.

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 does a club instructor actually charge?Missing from their site

   The club gives a $35 to $60 range for its instructors rather than a rate.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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 Monmouth Area Flying Club's rates. The middle of what 9 New Jersey 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. Monmouth Area Flying Club is not in it.

What we checked

A Lakewood club billing dry on the Hobbs, with monthly dues and instructors who each set their own price inside a published range. Crawled September 5, 2026.