DreamAir

Looking at going after my CFII rating. I've been reading the Jepp Instrument guide and the CFII PTS, but now I'm wondering how much time will it take. I know that is a fuzzy and subjective question. I'm thinking about 20 hours in the plane to get me back up to speed. I haven't flown instruments in two years, let alone try to teach it. I'm budgeting around $4000 for it, including $500 for the DPE fee. What do you guy think?

rickair7777

I think that should be enough, you can probably come in under your budget.

Use a trainer or even MS flight sim to brush up on scan and instrument procedures before you go fly.

Bons

I've had 4 cfii students. This is one of the cheapest and funnest ratings to get...Other than actual flight conditions or actual flight time you can do almost everything at home. Know inside and out front to back...your approaches, low enroute chart symbols etc, pts, instruments, rules and regs etc. I had one guy that was up to par with flying and knowledge and just needed work on GPS approaches and we had about 6 0r 8 hours dual flying and maybe a couple hours of ground. I've also seen it the other way with a student coming in non current/proficient, not up to par on the oral exam stuff. We spent 30-40 hours just flying approaches You'll almost positively get asked on how to give an IPC too. Get a II PTS. Good luck and have fun!! Just remember...Your not a II until you almost get puked on by your first couple of students that are under the hood!

fjetter

Plan on just trying to get instrument current first then look to do the CFII portion. Lookto try and find a school that has an approved sim to do this. That will save you quite a bit of $$. That will allow you to be able to focus more on teaching instruments when you get to that phase. Depending on your flight times, especially if you already have some dual given under your belt it shouldn't take you very long on this rating. After having not touched an aircraft following my furlough for a month and a half it took me about 4hours of dual to get signed off for this ride and passed with ease.

Ewfflyer

I like FJetter's response. I think an IPC and just getting back into that would help you. $500 for a DPE? Yikes, that's about $150-200 more than we pay here.

Are you currently an active CFI and flying often? If you are, then I doubt it's going to take 20hrs. Just seems to be overkill unless you honestly have completely forgotten instrument flying.

When I was an active CFI, I did the min 3hrs in 60 days with my co-worker, he signed me off and off to the races I went. Easiest check-ride ever, but I was instrument current.

AtlCSIP

If you are instrument current and actively teaching, the 3 hour minimum is realistic, as long as you have done the ground prep.