Flight training at Rising Wings Aviation

Rates are wet, billed per Hobbs hour, and include fuel and oil; fuel bought away from Casper is reimbursed against a receipt up to the local rate. The Cirrus is the exception and the trap: it is published at $369/hr PLUS $130/hr of consumables (fuel, oil and oxygen, with TKS de-icing fluid charged on top), so its true hourly cost is closer to $499 than $369. Discounts are offered to military personnel and first responders, and a flat-fee subscription exists for the simulator.

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 does an instructor cost per hour, and is the multi-engine rate different?Missing from their site

   Rising Wings publishes eight per-tail prices and no instruction rate anywhere across twenty-five pages, including its Private, Instrument and Commercial pages.

4. 4

   If I enroll through Casper College, do I pay these rates or the college's course fees?

   Casper College publishes a flight fee total for its AAS and Rising Wings publishes hourly rates. Which one you are billed under changes what happens if you need extra hours.

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 Rising Wings's rates. The middle of what 3 Wyoming 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. Rising Wings is not in it.

What we checked

Eight aircraft priced individually, wet, including a Tecnam P2006T twin and a turbocharged Cirrus, and no instruction rate on any page. The site is served over plain HTTP, so anything that requires HTTPS reports it as dead. Rising Wings delivers the flight training for Casper College's AAS in Aviation to Part 141 standards. Checked August 6, 2026.