Wings Aloft pays CFIs $13 an hour in the air and $10 on the ground and you owe then X-number of hours for every airplane *THEY* check you out in. So even if you have 300 hours in a C-172 you will still owe them for the time they spend with you to "give you the check out". So for that 1.5 hours in a checkout ride you have to give them 30 hours of dual