Gattman wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...

If you know that you want to end up with both the CFII and the CFI
(ASEL for instance) then getting the CFII first is probably not a bad
idea because instead of one really hard checkride (the initial CFI)
and then a really easy checkride (the CFII add-on), you have to
medium hard checkrides (CFII initial (including all the FOI), then
just the CFI(ASEL for instance) add on. However, if you get the CFII
and quite w/o getting the CFI-ASEL/AMEL/etc then you have an almost
worthless rating.

Great information. Thanks for this thread, folks...

So, realistically a lot of CFIs are low-time commercial pilots trying
to build hours, which means they can't possibly have a whole lot of
instrument time. For a guy like me who got his instrument shortly
before his commercial, but--having been jamming on the commercial in
VFR--hasn't logged much actual IMC, I don't think it would be
appropriate for me to take the CFII and then try to impart that
wisdom on pilots who might conceivably have two or three times more
flight experience than I.
How much experience under IFR/IMC do you guys feel like a person
should have in order to effectively (not just legally) perform as a
CFII?
-c

While great to have real world experience there are plenty of people
teaching plenty things with little or no real world experience in the
subject.