Flight training at Conley's Flight School

One aeroplane, one rate, and no statement of whether fuel is included.

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 does instruction cost per hour?Missing from their site

   The single aeroplane is priced and the instructor is not, and AOPA credits this school with the Private Pilot certificate only.

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 Conley's's rates. The middle of what 10 New York 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. Conley's is not in it.

What we checked

One RV-12iS and one rate. The July 2026 pull recorded this school as publishing nothing; it now publishes its aeroplane, which is why a no-rates verdict is a snapshot rather than a property. The instructor rate is still absent. Like Sport Flying USA in Pennsylvania this is a light-sport-only fleet, so the aeroplane here is the trainer rather than a cheap outlier.