Flight training at Wings of Carolina Flying Club

Flight instruction: $50/hr

Instructors are independent but have agreed a common $50/hr for club members. Both simulators are $15/hr. The aircraft page names the fleet, three 172s, five 152s, five Warriors and two Mooney M20Js, under a heading for reimbursement rates that does not render as text, so no aircraft figure is recorded. A Twin Comanche can be arranged for multi-engine training.

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   What is the hourly reimbursement rate for each aircraft?Missing from their site

   The instruction and simulator rates are published and the aircraft table does not render.

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 Wings of Carolina's rates. The middle of what 8 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. Wings of Carolina is not in it.

What we checked

A fifteen-airplane club at Raleigh Executive whose instructors have agreed one rate for members, with the aircraft table published in a form we could not read. Crawled September 5, 2026.