Flight training at Harmony Air

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

   What do the Cirrus SR22 and SR20 rent for, and does Cirrus instruction cost more?Missing from their site

   The fleet is largely Cirrus and none of the aircraft pages carries a price. Cirrus schools commonly charge a premium for standardised instruction.

6. 6

   What does the Piper Arrow cost?

   It is the one retractable in the fleet, so it is what a commercial student's complex hours would be flown in.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   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 Harmony Air's rates. The middle of what 11 Tennessee 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. Harmony Air is not in it.

What we checked

A named fleet with no prices: a Cirrus SR22 GTS G6, a Cirrus SR20 G6, a Cessna Redhawk 172 and a Piper Arrow PA28RT-201, each with its own page and none with a figure. Its robots.txt asks for a 10-second crawl delay, so read it slowly. Credited by AOPA from Sport through ATP including MEI.