Flight training at Live The Dream Flight Training

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 for training with you directly?Missing from their site

   The only rate on the site belongs to a flying club it hosts, not to the school.

6. 6

   Do I have to join the Wisconsin Fun Flyers club to train here?

   The club's aeroplane is leased from a third party in another town, so club membership and training may be a package rather than alternatives.

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 Live The Dream's rates. The middle of what 16 Wisconsin 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. Live The Dream is not in it.

What we checked

THE ONE RATE ON THIS SITE IS NOT THIS SCHOOL'S. The $87/hr wet figure, the $48/mo dues and the $400 deposit belong to the Wisconsin Fun Flyers flying club, which operates from the same field and leases its Cessna 172 from Duffy's Leasing in Marshfield, a separate operator listed in this directory. Checked August 14, 2026.