Flight training at Above It All 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

   What do the aeroplane and the instructor cost per hour, separately?Missing from their site

   The site quotes approximate whole-certificate prices and one bundled multi-engine hourly figure, but never separates the aeroplane from the instructor.

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 Above It All Aviation's rates. The middle of what 47 Texas 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. Above It All Aviation is not in it.

What we checked

APPROXIMATE COURSE PRICES, NOT RATES. Its certificate figures are all prefixed approximately, and its one hourly number bundles a multi-engine aeroplane with its instructor. A second figure is a discounted time-building rate available only when the cost is split with another pilot, which is a shared price rather than the school's rate. The July 2026 pull recorded this school as aeroplane-only and this one finds the reverse, which is a reminder that these verdicts describe a page on a day.