Flight training at Del Sol 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 172 rent for per hour, and is that wet or dry?Missing from their site

   Del Sol publishes no rate anywhere on its site, so the airplane rate is the number your whole budget rests on and the only way to get it is to ask.

6. 6

   What is the hourly instruction rate, and does it cover ground and briefing time as well as flight time?Missing from their site

   Nothing on the site prices an instructor, and schools differ on whether the pre-flight and post-flight briefing is billed at the same rate.

7. 7

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

   Del Sol advertises training through MEI. The airplane and its rate are not named on the site, 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 Del Sol'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. Del Sol is not in it.

What we checked

Del Sol advertises training from Private through MEI and states it is a preferred training partner with GoJet Airlines, is SkillBridge approved for military transition, and partners with Purdue Global University for aviation degrees. It publishes no prices. A crawl on August 12, 2026 read 16 pages enumerated from the sitemap, probed 23 common rate paths and read one linked PDF, and found no hourly rate anywhere.