Flight training at Horizon Aviation Services

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

   The website did not answer over https or http on August 13, 2026, so nothing about this school can be verified from its own pages.

6. 6

   Are you Part 141, Part 61, or both?

   AOPA's record claims both and there is no site to confirm it against. The part decides hour minimums and can decide financing.

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 Horizon's rates. The middle of what 16 Virginia 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. Horizon is not in it.

What we checked

THE WEBSITE DID NOT ANSWER over either https or http when the state was swept on August 13, 2026, so this listing rests on AOPA's record alone and records no rate. That is a finding about the site, not about the school: Horizon is one of the larger Chesapeake operators on AOPA's list and shares Chesapeake Regional with Epix Aviation. Re-check the domain before assuming anything.