Flight training at Bode 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

   What does the Cessna you train primary students in rent for per hour, and is that wet or dry?Missing from their site

   Bode runs the largest published fleet of any school in the state and prices none of it, so the airplane rate is the number your whole budget rests on.

6. 6

   What is the instruction rate, and does it differ for instrument, multi-engine or initial CFI training?Missing from their site

   Nothing on the site prices an instructor, and a school running MEI and CFI courses usually tiers the rate by rating.

7. 7

   Which twin do you use for the multi-engine ratings and what does it rent for?

   The school advertises multi-engine training and rental but names no twin and no twin rate, and twins typically run double a trainer.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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.

10. 10

    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 Bode's rates. The middle of what 5 New Mexico 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. Bode is not in it.

What we checked

Bode is the biggest gap in this state's directory. A crawl on August 12, 2026 read 30 pages enumerated from the sitemap, followed both fleet index pages, probed 23 common rate paths and read two linked PDFs, and found no hourly rate anywhere on the site. AOPA's finder lists the school as offering training from Recreational and Sport through ATP, with CFI, CFII and MEI, plus single and multi-engine rental, complex, high-performance, tailwheel and mountain-flying instruction. None of that is priced publicly.