Flight training at Premier Air

Every rate carries a 3% tax on top, which the site states per aeroplane. Among the cheapest published fleets anywhere in this directory.

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

   Five aeroplanes are priced to the dollar with the tax spelled out, and the instructor is the one line missing.

4. 4

   Are the rates wet?

   The site never says, and at $80 an hour for a 152 the answer changes the number a great deal.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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 Premier Air'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. Premier Air is not in it.

What we checked

A five-aeroplane card at prices that would make it one of the cheapest rated schools in the country, with no instruction rate. Centerline Aviation Services shares Lincoln County Regional, and AOPA also files the airport itself as a flight school. Checked August 13, 2026.