Flight training at OnCore 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 do the Diamond and Cirrus aeroplanes rent for, and what does instruction cost?Missing from their site

   Every figure on the site is a fixed-price discovery flight or simulator experience, sold as a product, rather than an hourly rate.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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 OnCore'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. OnCore is not in it.

What we checked

READ THIS BEFORE RE-CRAWLING ONCORE, for two reasons. First, its figures are DISCOVERY FLIGHT products with Buy Now buttons: $250 in a Diamond DA20, $295 and $325 in a DA40, $475 in a Cirrus SR20 G7, and $170 for a simulator experience. None is an hourly rate. Second, the site refuses ordinary HTTPS clients but answers the crawler's plain-HTTP fallback, so July recorded it as blocked when it is readable. Try plain HTTP before recording a site as bot-blocked, exactly as Arrow Aviation taught in Connecticut. Shares Rochester with Rochester Air Center, which this directory rates.