Flight training at T&G Flying Club

Flight instruction: $80/hr

Flight instruction is $80/hr and ground $50/hr on the rental-rates page, which also says every aircraft rate is wet and then publishes the member and non-member aircraft tables as IMAGES, which a text reader cannot see. About 30 airplanes are advertised.

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 are the member and non-member wet rates for the 152 and 172?Missing from their site

   They are published as pictures on the rates page and could not be read; a phone call or a browser settles it in a minute.

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 T&G'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. T&G is not in it.

What we checked

Northeast Ohio's big rental club at Burke Lakefront, with the instructor priced in text and the airplanes priced in two JPEG tables. Crawled September 5, 2026.