Flight training at Sheridan Pilots 307

The three Cessnas are published at $185/hour WITH FUEL, and block rates are available. Two further aircraft carry no price at all: a Bellanca Decathlon (N307MJ) and a Beechcraft 58 Baron twin (N78RE), so multi-engine training here cannot be costed. Simulators are priced separately: a Redbird LD at $50/hr for adults and an X-Plane 11 setup at $25/hr, free for under-16s.

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?Missing from their site

   Three aircraft are priced to the dollar and the instruction rate appears nowhere across thirty crawled pages and four training PDFs.

4. 4

   What do the Baron and the Decathlon rent for?

   They are the twin and the tailwheel, and they are the only two aircraft in the fleet without a published price.

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 Sheridan Pilots 307'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. Sheridan Pilots 307 is not in it.

What we checked

Prices three of its five aircraft, all at the same figure with fuel, and leaves the twin and the tailwheel unpriced. The site also runs a merchandise shop, so a careless read picks up $10 flat-rate shipping as though it were a rate. Its robots.txt keeps 27 URLs out of the crawl. Checked August 6, 2026.