Flight training at Aerowood 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 are the new dry rates, and what does fuel add?Missing from their site

   Aerowood announced on its own pricing page that it moved to dry rates on 1 July 2026 and did not publish the new numbers, so nothing on the site tells you what an hour costs.

6. 6

   Is the instruction rate in your 2024 rental agreement still current?Missing from their site

   That document prices a primary CFI in a non-Cirrus aeroplane, and it predates the pricing change.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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 Aerowood's rates. The middle of what 9 North Carolina 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. Aerowood is not in it.

What we checked

A SCHOOL THAT ANNOUNCED A PRICE CHANGE AND THEN PUBLISHED NO PRICES. Its pricing page explains that from 1 July 2026 rentals moved to dry rates with fuel charged separately, and directs you to email or to its scheduling platform for the figures. The only rates readable on the site are inside a 2024 rental-agreement PDF, which predates the change, so they are not recorded. A crawl of this site does return an instructor figure from that PDF; it is superseded. Checked August 13, 2026.