DETAILED PRICES

• All rates are wet (fuel included unless fuel exceeds $5.75/gal)
• Billed on Hobbs time (engine running)
• Pay as you go

• A $1,500 refundable security deposit is held on your account—similar to a rental car or property deposit.
• Not prepayment for flight hours.
• Fully refundable minus any outstanding charges.
• If you choose not to leave the deposit, aircraft rates increase by $10/hour to cover the added risk.

• Block rates usually require large, non-refundable prepayments

• When schools mismanage funds, students lose money — for example, multiple flight schools in the U.S. closed in recent years after spending prepaid block funds, leaving students out $10,000–$40,000+ EACH.

• Our standard model avoids this entirely:

  • No lock-in contracts

  • No non-refundable block hours

  • Pay as you go with full transparency

• We intentionally stay away from block-hour systems and recommend that students do the same

The Basic Aviation Training Device is free to be used by enrolled Pilot Rise students. To qualify, you must have received training in the previous 30 days from us. You still have to pay for the instructor if you are training with an instructor. We HIGHLY encourage all students to maximize the BATD to save on costs and accelerate training.

Non-students: $30 / hour

Airport Fees

All airport fees incurred during your rental are billed to you.
During training, our procedures avoid airports with known fees.

Minimum Billing (1:5 Rule)

For every 5 hours reserved, billing is a minimum of 1.0 Hobbs hour.
Example: A 24-hour reservation with 1.0 flown = 5.0 billed.

Damage & Loss

You are financially responsible for any damage, loss, or liability resulting from your actions. When acting as the Pilot-in-Command, you also assume responsibility for any operational or legal exposure created by your decisions. Pilot Rise may recover all related costs, and Pilot Rise may apply a reasonable administrative fee when staff involvement is required. We may charge a $100.00 fee for any policy violation regardless of damages, however, we typically waive this if any mistake is self-reported and was unintentional. This fee may be assessed to the individual who violated a policy or the Pilot in Command.

• Instruction (flight + ground) is billed hourly.
• All flights include 0.6 hr of ground instruction for pre/post-flight.

• Additional ground is billed when:

  • You receive classroom ground instruction or

  • The lesson requires extended ground (e.g., multiple fuel stops on long cross-countries)

• Classroom instruction is billed from the scheduled start time or the actual start time — whichever comes first — until the lesson is complete.

Receive the “Early Bird” or “Night Owl” rates for flight instruction for the entire flight if your flight:

• Departs before 6:30am
• Lands after 8:30pm

• CFI Training Rate: $90/hr when training for an initial CFI certificate

• Spin Training Surcharge: +$150 if seeking a spin endorsement only

• Foreign Student Processing: TSA/SEVIS paperwork time billed at instructor hourly rate

• Cancel less than 36 hour notice: $200
• No-show (<2 hours or no-show): +$50
• Sessions longer than 3 hours may incur multiple late-cancel fees
• May appeal within 3 days using this form: Appeal Late Fee

• Credit/debit card surcharge: 3.3%
• Late payment: 2% interest per week after late 4 business days
• Refund via check: $25 processing fee
• Refund via Zelle: free
• Billing discrepancies must be reported within 24 hours if you believe you were overcharged. Pilot Rise reserves the right to correct undercharges or billing errors at any time.

• Accounts with no flying or training activity for 12 months and a balance over $200 enter our Grandfathered Rates Program.
• To keep access to any current grandfathered pricing, materials, or perks for active students, inactive accounts pay a $10/month membership fee.
• When your balance is fully used or refunded, grandfathered status ends.

If you do not wish to remain in the program, simply withdraw your account balance.
Grandfathered rates do not lock in old prices—only continued access to any legacy pricing or perks we currently offer, which may change at any time.

These only apply to those receiving financing.

• Early Termination: $500

• Cessna 150: $129
• Cessna 172: $149

Standard Headset: $10/flight