Flight training at About Time Aviation

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 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.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   Are you still operating at Hobby Field, and what does training cost?Missing from their site

   The domain in AOPA's record is for sale, so there is no current public description of the business at all.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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 About Time's rates. The middle of what 8 Oregon 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. About Time is not in it.

What we checked

Listed WITHOUT a working website. abouttimeaviation.com is a DOMAIN-FOR-SALE listing, advertising itself at $5,795 or $241.46 a month. A crawl reads thirty pages of a domain marketplace and reports no rates, which is true and tells you nothing about the school. AOPA still credits this record from Recreational through ATP. Both listed operators at Hobby Field, this one and TakeWING, have lost their websites.