Flight training at Just Plane Adventures

Flight instruction: $125/hr

Flight instruction with the chief pilot is $125/hr. Every aircraft figure on the site is published "with Fuel and Pilot" (Cessna 172N $315/hr, Piper Comanche 260 $425/hr, AirCam on floats $495/hr), an airplane and a pilot in one number, so no airplane-only rate is recorded. The home field is a 2,000 ft grass strip; the site says longer-runway work uses nearby Grant County Airport.

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   What does the Cessna 172 cost per hour for a student, dual and solo, without the adventure-flight pilot included?Missing from their site

   Every published airplane figure bundles fuel and a pilot, so the training rate for the airplane alone is unknown.

4. 4

   How much of the training flies from the grass strip and how much from Grant County Airport?

   The home runway is 2,000 ft of ridge-top grass, which is real backcountry experience and also not where instrument or multi-engine work happens.

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 Just Plane Adventures's rates. The middle of what 4 West 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. Just Plane Adventures is not in it.

What we checked

The for-profit arm of a ministry retreat, with cabins, RV sites and a 2,000 ft grass runway, and a chief instructor with 39 years and 16,000 hours. Instruction is priced at $125/hr on its own; every airplane is priced only with fuel and a pilot included, for adventure flights, so the airplane rate for training is not published. Crawled across 30 of 43 pages, September 5, 2026.