Career track
Buy The Hours, Not The Flight
For pilots building toward commercial and airline minimums. Commit to 100 or 500 hours and the rate steps down to $149 or $142 wet — drawn against the Hobbs meter on any aircraft on our line, paid in full or financed over monthly payments.
The ladder
Where The Hours Take You
250
hours
Commercial certificate
14 CFR 61.129 aeronautical experience
500
hours
Insurable as a working pilot
Most operators open up here
1000
hours
Restricted ATP window
Depending on your degree pathway
1500
hours
Unrestricted ATP
14 CFR 61.159
A 500 hour block moves you a third of the way to an unrestricted ATP in one decision, at a rate no one at this field sells by the hour.
Career blocks
Two Commitments
Payment
Three Ways To Pay For It
Block
500 hr
24 months
Rate
$142/hr
Paid in full
Total
$71,000
Wet, fuel and oil included
Saving
$11,500
Against $165/hr standard
Financing is arranged with a third-party aviation lender. Hobbs Aviation does not extend credit, run credit checks or hold your paper — the lender settles the block with us and you deal with them on terms. Florida sales tax is due at the time of payment and is added to the figures above.
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Start A Block
Block applications are tied to a pilot account so the hours land on your ledger. Create one — it takes a minute — and come back to this page.
Create a pilot accountHow the hours are tracked
Every block sits on a ledger in your dashboard. When you check an aircraft back in, the Hobbs difference is drawn from your oldest live block automatically — no invoice, no reconciliation, no argument about the number. You always see hours remaining and the day the window closes.
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