➤ TRAIN · CERTIFY · ADVANCE

Pilot

Programs

Learn to fly at Jackson Regional Airport with one-on-one instruction and a training plan built around your goals. From your first flight to advanced certificates and ratings, explore your options, estimate your training budget, and take the next step with Right Rudder Aviation.
➤ CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Our Training

Programs

Choose the next step in your flying journey. Explore certificates and ratings, then work with our team to build a training plan around your experience, schedule and goals.

Private Pilot

Build a strong foundation in aircraft control, navigation and safe decision-making as you work toward your first pilot certificate.

Instrument Rating

Develop precise instrument flying, flight planning and weather decision-making skills for the next stage of your training.

Commercial Pilot

Refine your flying skills and prepare for the commercial pilot certificate as you take the next step toward professional aviation.

Sport pilot

Work toward your Sport Pilot certificate with focused instruction built around recreational flying and your individual goals.

Certified Flight Instructor

Learn to explain, demonstrate and teach essential flying skills as you prepare to guide the next generation of pilots.

Talk to a CFI

Fifteen minutes on the phone will tell you more than a week of research.

➤ TRAINING RATES

Straightforward

Pricing

You pay for the time you actually use. No membership fee, no monthly minimum, and no charge for the hours you do not fly.

AIRCRAFT
$189
PER HOUR

Aircraft Only

The rate for the airplane by itself, without an instructor. This is what you pay for solo time and for rental once you are checked out.

FLIGHT INSTRUCTION
$60
PER HOUR

Flight Instructor

Added to the aircraft rate whenever you fly with a CFI. Every dual lesson, checkout and flight review.

GROUND INSTRUCTION
$60
PER HOUR

Ground Training

One on one ground school, preflight briefings, post-flight debriefs and checkride preparation.

AIRCRAFT PLUS INSTRUCTOR
$249 per hour

Private pilot · 40-hour starting estimate

Big flying goals.
A clearer training budget.

Move the sliders to explore your training investment. Then request a personal flight plan from our Jackson team—your estimate comes with it.

Your estimated training investment

$9,960
Flight with instructor$7,470
Aircraft-only flight$1,890
Ground instruction$600

40 flight hours + 10 ground hours

Based on the FAA’s 40-hour flight-time minimum for Part 61 private pilot single-engine airplane training. This starting estimate uses 30 hours with an instructor, 10 solo aircraft hours and 10 ground hours; the instructor and ground amounts are planning assumptions. Additional training may be needed. Excludes medical, tests, checkride, supplies and other fees. Confirm current rates with your instructor.

Turn your estimate into a flight plan.

Tell us where you want to go. Our team will follow up about your goals, schedule and a personalized training estimate. No payment required.

➤ PLAN IT OUT

Build Your

Flight Plan

Compare certificates and ratings, location details, financing resources, and the practical next steps toward training at our Jackson, Tennessee base.