IFR: How many hours did it take you?

I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR
rating. Just curious.

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I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR
rating. Just curious.



IIRC, I had about 212 hours TT. It took me a while to accumulate the
50 hours xc time.

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

"STICKMONKE" wrote in
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I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your
IFR rating. Just curious.





Only 15 hours of training from a CFII is required, but I have found that it
takes about 30 hours or more to become proficient.

I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR
rating. Just curious.

When I took my checkride I had 210 total time, 44 instrument. My IR training
comprised 54 hours over 30 flights. One of these was in a ground trainer, one
was solo X/C, and one was solo ADF practice, visually. I was able to fly
almost every day, so the whole thing took less than two months. It probably
would have taken more hours if I'd only flown once a week.

From September 1999 through November 2000 I logged 205 hours of dual,
ostensibly all of it toward my instrument rating. I think I must hold some
kind of record for incompetence.

About 42 hours to get the rating (I think at about 230 hrs total time).
Calendar time was about 1 3/4 years (and three different
instructors). No sim time, but use an instructor for most of the
flights. Use a safety pilot for a a few hours toward the end. (Great
intro for VFR pilots to be able to sit in the front and see what
transpires.)

STICKMONKE wrote:
I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your IFR
rating. Just curious.




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31.9 hours. I already had commercial pilot rating. Took 5 months.

Rod

"STICKMONKE" wrote in
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I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you
to get your IFR rating. Just curious.

I can't recall. Whatever number Uncle Sam specified. I do
recall that I had to go out & get some more hours, just because
we were required to fly x number of hours. I had passed my
checkride, but I still had to log however many hours the
syllabus called for. The military is lots of things, but
flexible ain't one of them, at least in many areas.

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Regards,

Stan

"STICKMONKE" wrote:
I'm trying to determine the average hours it took for you to get your
IFR rating. Just curious.

About 90 hours of instruction and practice over 12 months.
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Dan
C172RG at BFM

I got my IA rating after 7 months of traning and:
163 hrs total time
71 approaches
8.5 hrs actual
28.8 hrs hood (a bit of this was from primary training)
8.3 hrs simulator