How much PIC cross country time do you have? How much simulated instrument?

You need 50 hours PIC cross country time to get an instrument rating, most
100 hour pilots do not have anywhere close to this. Note PIC, your dual cross
countries while working on your private do not count, but your solo ones do.
The 7 day courses I've seen require you to have the 50 hours CC as a
prerequisite.

You also need 40 hours hood time, of which most people have about 3 when they
are at 100 hours.

I would agree with others, you should wait till you have around 200 hours, at 100
hours you're really still learning how to just fly the airplane. Over the next
100 hours, make 50 of them cross country, and bring along a pilot so you can
chip away at the 40 hours hood time. You'll get a lot of hood time when you
work on your instrument, but doing 40 all at once is going to be hard.



Rod S wrote:
In the next few months, I may have a couple of weeks I could dedicate
to earning my instrument rating. I am a PP-SEL with about 100 hours,
and my BFR is due in November. Since I'm committed to keeping my
ticket, and the instrument rating would meet the BFR requirement, I'm
considering one of the "one-week" training programs you see in the
flying mags. Does anyone have any experience with them, good or bad?