Instrument Rating
Requirements:
- Hold a current private pilot certificate
- Be able to read, speak, write and understand the English language
- Hold a third class medical certificate
- Pass the written exam
- Pass the oral and practical exam
Hours Needed:
- Have logged at least 50 hours cross-country flight time as Pilot in command
of which at least 10 hours must be in airplanes. - 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument total flight
time: - 20 hours of instrument flight training (dual) in airplane including
- 3 hours flight training within 60 days before check-ride
- 1 cross-country in airplane under IFR with
- a distance of at least 250 nm along airways
- an instrument approach at each airport
- 3 different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems
- 20 hours may be performed in a simulator
Estimated Cost in a Cessna 150/152 or Piper Tomahawk:
The minimum flight requirement is 40 hours. Our students will typically get their licenses after 45 to 50 hours (the national average is 55 hours).
| Dual Instruction | $100/hr |
| Ground | $45/hr |
| Cost with Flight Simulator | Cost without Flight Simulator | |||
| 20 hours flight training | $2,000 | 40 hours flight instruction | $4,000 | |
| 25 hours simulator | $2,500 | 40 hours ground | $1,800 | |
| 40 hours ground | $1,800 | Books | $100 | |
| Books | $100 | Testing Fees | $800 | |
| Testing Fees | $800 | |||
| TOTAL | $7,200 | TOTAL | $6,700 |
*Tests fees include: written test and check-ride.
**Add $ 50 per month to keep the member rate.
Prices may vary following student’s capabilities.
