What flight training costs at San Marcos Regional (HYI)
5 schools train at San Marcos Regional Airport, San Marcos. One publishes a full rate card, shown with its source and date next to a PilotBound estimate. The other 4 are listed with what they do publish.
Updated October 12, 2026 · All Texas flight schools
Totals to reach your Private goal at this pace. Estimates use PilotBound's own completion-hours model, examiner-completion data where it exists and FAA minimums where it does not, applied to each school's published rates. They are PilotBound estimates, not the school's quote, and will differ from a school's own figures. How we estimate.
Texas State Aviation
Part 61San Marcos, TX·tsaviation.com
$130/hr aircraft (wet)·$70/hr instructor
Checked October 12, 2026·Source
PilotBound estimate, Private
$15,795
range $13.6K to $18K
~72 hrs on their published rates, plus one-time fees.
Add to my planTexas State cost breakdown →- Below: schools without a full published rate card. They cannot be priced, so they sit at the end of a cost sort.
Austin Academy of Aviation
Part 61San Marcos, TX·HYI·flyaus.com
No PilotBound estimate
Austin Academy of Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Austin Academy of AviationBlack Hound Aviation
Part 61San Marcos, TX·HYI·blackhoundaviation.com
Checked September 13, 2026·Source
A discovery flight at $195 including tax is the only price on the site. Nothing else about training is priced.
No PilotBound estimate
Black Hound Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate and an instructor rate
What to ask Black Hound AviationTexas Top Aviation
Part 61New Braunfels, TX·HYI·txtopaviation.com
No PilotBound estimate
Texas Top Aviation does not publish an aircraft rate, an instructor rate and a list of ratings taught
What to ask Texas Top AviationWatch Me Fly Academy
Part 61San Marcos, TX·HYI·Watchmefly.academy/
$165/hr aircraft·instructor rate not published
Checked September 13, 2026·Source·2 aircraft published
EVERY RATE HERE BELONGS TO A PROGRAMME, and there is no walk-up price at all. The figures above are the Smart Path member rates for training beyond a package, both wet. Commercial students fly the same two airplanes dry, at $135/hr for the 172 and $110/hr for the Aerobat, so the two tiers are not comparable with each other before fuel. A Redbird simulator is $80/hr. Instructor hours come inside the packages, thirty of them in the Private, and are not priced by the hour for anybody.
No PilotBound estimate
Watch Me Fly Academy does not publish an instructor rate
What to ask Watch Me Fly Academy
Estimates use the same method as every Texas school page: PilotBound's own completion-hours model times each school's published rates, plus the one-time fees most quotes leave out. They are ours, not the schools' quotes, and we are not affiliated with the schools. How these estimates work·Disclaimer & removal policy
Discovery flights at HYI 1
Texas discovery flights →$195
Flight school costs at San Marcos Regional, in numbers
Computed from the 1 San Marcos Regional school that publishes both an aircraft and an instructor rate, on the same method every card above uses. The 4 listings without a full rate card are left out of every figure.
- PilotBound Private estimate at the one school with published rates
- $15,795
- Published trainer rental, per hour
- $130/hr
- Published instruction, per hour
- $70/hr
- Schools publishing a full rate card (aircraft and instructor)
- 1 of 5
Lowest published trainer rates at San Marcos Regional
Other Texas airports with flight schools.
- Cleburne Regional (CPT)2 schools, all with rates
- Conroe-North Houston Regional (CXO)3 schools, 2 with rates
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial (DWH)5 schools, 4 with rates
- Fort Worth Meacham International (FTW)7 schools, 1 with rates
- Hicks Air Field (T67)3 schools, all with rates
- Odessa Schlemeyer Field (ODO)3 schools, 1 with rates
Flight schools in Texas cities.
- San Marcos4 schools, 1 with rates
- Abilene3 schools, 1 with rates
- Austin3 schools, 1 with rates
- Burleson3 schools, 2 with rates
- Burnet3 schools, 1 with rates
- Conroe5 schools, 2 with rates
- Denton4 schools
- Fort Worth12 schools, 5 with rates
- Georgetown3 schools, 2 with rates
- Harlingen3 schools
- Houston5 schools, 4 with rates
- Pearland3 schools, 1 with rates
- San Antonio4 schools
- Seguin3 schools
- Waco2 schools, all with rates
Common questions about flight schools at HYI
How much does flight school cost at San Marcos Regional?
Texas State Aviation in San Marcos is the one San Marcos Regional school here with a full published rate card: $130 per hour for its Diamond DA20-C1 and $70 per hour for instruction, checked October 12, 2026. On those published rates, PilotBound estimates a private pilot certificate at about $15,795. That is a PilotBound estimate, not a quote from the school.
How current are these San Marcos Regional flight school rates?
Every rate here is the school's own published figure, linked to its source and dated; the newest check at San Marcos Regional is October 12, 2026, and each card and school page shows the exact date its rates were read. The directory is re-checked on a monthly cycle, and 4 more schools at San Marcos Regional are listed without an estimate because they do not publish a full rate card. A school can correct or remove its listing anytime.
Can I take a discovery flight at HYI?
One of the 5 schools at San Marcos Regional Airport publishes a discovery flight price: Black Hound Aviation at $195, checked September 13, 2026. Each is the school's own published price, and the listing says what it includes.