Flight training at Crosswind Flight Academy

All four aeroplanes are published wet, per tail, with year and avionics.

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

   This is the only thing standing between Crosswind and a full listing, and it has been the only thing for over a year.

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 Crosswind'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. Crosswind is not in it.

What we checked

HELD SINCE JULY 2026 FOR EXACTLY ONE MISSING NUMBER. The July research recorded it as a hold rather than inventing a CFI rate, and a fresh crawl on August 13 found the fleet page unchanged and still silent on instruction. Recording the hold as a listing is the honest version: the school is real, its aeroplanes are priced, and the instructor rate is a phone call. Checked August 13, 2026.