Career-track pilots

The hours between here and the minimums.

Commercial needs 250. CFI needs the commercial first. The airlines want 1,000 or 1,500 depending on your path. Every one of those hours is bought at an hourly rate, which makes the rate — and whether you can actually get the airplane on a Saturday — the whole game. A4Flight publishes wet rates, caps membership against fleet size and bills in honest tenth-of-an-hour increments.

Why the club math works

Wet rates beat dry rates at real fuel prices.

Fuel is already in the number

A dry rate plus 9–11 gph of 100LL at DFW-area prices routinely lands above our wet rate. The rate you see is the rate you are invoiced per Hobbs hour.

Lower A4 fleet aircraft rate

J170 hours can support appropriate training and time-building. Your instructor reviews which certificate requirements each flight satisfies.

SR20 instrument proficiency

Choose the SR20 for appropriate instrument training, subject to the aircraft’s current equipment and status and your eligibility.

Cross-country blocks you can book

Multi-day and full-weekend reservations are allowed with advance approval, billed at a $1,000 per day minimum charge or actual flight time, whichever is greater — so long XC trips toward the 50-hour PIC XC requirement are actually possible.

Whole-hour, honest billing

One-hour minimum, then billed in 0.1 hour increments, on one club invoice with optional autopay and account credits.

Experience tracked automatically

The portal maps every logged flight against Part 61 commercial, instrument and ATP experience lines so you know exactly which requirement to fly next.

Instruction

Ratings on the same ramp.

Instrument, commercial and CFI prep run out of Sheltair at KDTO with A4-approved instructors. Because the club pays CFIs directly, you never negotiate an instruction rate mid-training.

The fleet

Our fleet, published wet rates.

Every rate below includes fuel and comes from the same record members book against.

Fuel math

Wet rates, checked against the pump.

Set today's fuel price and compare the club's wet rate with a dry rate plus fuel.

Club wet rate
$250.00 / hr
Fuel at 10.5 gph
$64.58 / hr
Equivalent dry rate
$185.43 / hr

The club rate includes fuel. To compare against a dry rental, add the fuel line above to that rental's posted hourly rate. Instruction, when you fly with a club CFI, appears on the same club invoice — one invoice, everything included.

On the line

Our aircraft, our ramp.

Every photograph is a club aircraft at Denton Enterprise Airport.

Open cockpit of a club Cirrus SR20-G2 with both Avidyne displays visible
Cockpit
Cabin and rear seats of a club Cirrus SR20-G2
Cabin
Pilot seated in Cirrus SR20-G2 N94RS with the door raised
Left seat
Profile view of a club Cirrus SR20-G2 outside the hangar
Profile
Cirrus SR20-G2 N94RS parked beside the club hangar
N94RS
Cirrus SR20-G2 nosed out of the hangar door
Hangar door

FAQ

Common questions.

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