Flight training at Innovative Aviation

The 150 is sold in blocks and priced dry with tax on top: five hours $350 ($70/hr), ten $650 ($65/hr), fifteen $900 ($60/hr), twenty $1,100 ($55/hr). The five-hour figure is recorded as the nearest thing to a single-hour rate. No instructor rate and no hourly rate outside a block.

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

   Your published rates are dry. Roughly what does fuel add per hour on the trainer?

   The published figures leave fuel out, so they understate the real hourly cost until you add it.

4. 4

   What does the instructor cost, and can the 150 be rented by the hour outside a block?Missing from their site

   Only block rates are published, and only for the airplane.

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 Innovative Aviation's rates. The middle of what 16 Pennsylvania 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. Innovative Aviation is not in it.

What we checked

A Cessna 150 sold in dry blocks at Indiana County Airport, with no instructor rate and no single-hour price. Crawled September 5, 2026.