TRAIN FOR AN INSTRUMENT RATING

Instrument flying opens up a whole new world to your flying adventures! You will hone your flying skills and become a much more competent pilot.  Plus it will open the door to flying on hazy fogged in mornings and  getting into places that non-instrument pilots aren’t able!  Here are the requirements:

1. Fifty hours of cross country flight time as pilot in command, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane; and
2. Forty hours of actual or simulated instrument time, of which 15 hours  must have been received from an authorized instructor (CFII) who holds  an instrument-airplane rating, and the instrument time includes:
3. Three hours of instrument flight training from an authorized  instructor in an airplane that is appropriate to the instrument-airplane  rating within 2 calendar months before the date of the practical test;  and
4. Instrument flight training on cross country flight procedures,  including one cross country flight in an airplane with an authorized  instructor (CFII), that is performed under instrument flight rules, when  a flight plan has been filed with an air traffic control facility, and  that involves—
(A) A flight of 250 nautical miles along airways or by directed routing from an air traffic control facility;
(B) An instrument approach at each airport; and
(C) Three different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems.
5. Use of flight simulators or aviation training devices.  If the  instrument time was provided by an authorized instructor in an aviation  training device. A maximum of 10 hours of instrument time received in an  aviation training device may be credited for the instrument time  requirements.

I’d love to help you get your  instrument rating in the funnest and most economical way!  I have a  flight simulator for which you can log 10 hours of instrument time at a  great savings over flying the actual airplane.  The simulator training  is amazing and will allow you to do and experience much more than in the  actual airplane.