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Flight Training Time Requirements (Instrument)
There is no total time requirements for attaining you instrument rating, but you have to log:(FAR 61.65)
1) 40 hours of instrument total time (Includes Private Hood if given by a CFII & Time Flown with a *Safety Pilot under the hood)
2) 15 hours has to be with a CFII (Instrument Instructor)
NOTE: You must have 50 hours if PIC cross country time as well. This time can be on personal flights after your private training such as lunch flights, vacations or sigtseeing trips. It is fun flight time, but can take a few months to rack up the whole 50 hours. 10 hours must be in an airplane. (the rest can be in a simulator or even a helicopter)
In addition you have to make a cross country instrument training flight with landings at 3 different airports flying 3 different types of instrument approaches with a CFII.
NOTE: A safety pilot must be another FAA certified pilot who is current in their recency of experience & medical. The safety pilot can be a private pilot if the flight is done in VFR conditions and the instrument time is undr the hood.
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Required Flight Maneuvers (Instrument)
Traing requirements for instrument will be pretty obvious. You will be learning to fly by reference only to instruments. Some flights will be in actual instrument conditions (IFR) but most will be under simulated instrument condition where you will be wearing a view limiting device such as a training hood.
The things you will learn are:
* Instrument Scan / Interprutation
* Holding (Including entering and leaving)
* VOR/ILS/Localizer Approaches
* Advanced GPS use
* IFR Comms
* IFR Regs
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Cost Estimates (Instrument)
The great thing about you instrument rating is that once you get your private license, you need 50 hours of PIC cross country time. So, you can relax and have fun flying to build that time. You can carry passengers, go for lunch, use the plane for a vacation and more. All the while you are doing this, you are actually working toward your required time for you instrument rating.
15 Hours with a CFII = $2000 (172SP) / $2100 (Arrow & 172SP)
Required Tests & Supplies = Appx. $500
Total = Appx $2500-3100 plus the remaining 25 hours of instrument with a safety pilot or CFI/CFII.
Some of that reuired instrument time can be in a simulator or with a safety pilot and even done while you build your XC time and would reduce the total expected costs!
So, extimating Instrument time can be difficult but expect to spend no less than $3000 and no more than about $4500.
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