CFII Before CFI

Gattman wrote
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?

My first instrument instructor in the Navy's Link Trainer (1958) was a
"white hat" enlisted sailor who had never been in an airplane.
Never-the-less, he did an entirely adequate job of teaching me
how to maneuver an airplane solely by reference to flight instruments.

Bob Moore