Be very VERY careful if a flight school wants you to pay for an entire certificate up front. Pay as you go is defiantly your best option. I know many pilots who paid over 40k upfront at the beginning of their training, and only got less than 20hrs of flight time because the flight school went out of business. They lost all their money. One guy even paid 2 days before the school closed, he never even flew once.
I dont know about NY rates, but $165 an hour sounds like it could be reasonable, but this really depends of course on the aircraft being used.
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Selfmade92
And in overall how much should I expect to pay for all my certificates? Should I expect something like $30,000, or is that too little?
What type of certificates are you including in this number? This sounds low for even through a commercial certificate. For a private, instrument, commercial single and multi engine at my school the absolute minimum possible to pay is 33k. This is assuming you finish in the minimum number of hours allowed by the FAA to take check rides, which most people are not able to do, and do all of private and most of the commercial in a C152.