CFII Before CFI

Gattman wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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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?

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.

Right. I took guitar lessons from guys like that when I was a
teenager. So my question stands, or, to rephrase:

If you were sponsoring a student or family member's instrument rating
and I was a candidate for the instructor role, how many hours of IFR/IMC
do you think would be a worthy minimum?

-c

The point I was getting at was a good instructor is a good instructor. There
are a lot of guys out there with 1000+ hours in the muck that couldn't teach
you how to tune the radio if you held a gun to their head. Likewise there
are instructors coming up throught the system that with very little real
world IFR/IMC expereince could teach those 1000+ hour guys a thing or two.

I'm not saying that having an instructor with both isn't better but in my
opinion being a good instuctor is the critical skill.