"BillJ" wrote in message
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Are you sure about the CFI not having an instrument rating. This doesn't
sound right, since a CFI has to have a Commercial rating, and with some
exceptions all commercial ratings have an instrument rating first.

Where did you get that idea?

There's absolutely no relation between the Commercial certificate and the
Instrument-Airplane rating, other than some restrictions on what a
Commercial pilot may do without the Instrument rating.

Nothing about having a Commercial certificate in any way implies having an
Instrument rating.

Pete