Flight training at Northwest Flyers

A recreational flying club whose aircraft pages state a club member rental rate, wet, per tail; a 1978 Cessna 172N and a Cherokee Six are also in the fleet. Dues and the instructor are not priced on the site.

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 are the dues, and what does an instructor cost per hour?Missing from their site

   The airplanes carry member rates and the membership and instructor do not.

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 Northwest Flyers's rates. The middle of what 13 Ohio 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. Northwest Flyers is not in it.

What we checked

A four-airplane flying club at OSU Airport that prices its airplanes for members, wet, and nothing else. Crawled September 5, 2026.