IFR: How many hours did it take you?

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

I had just under 700 hours total time, and just a hair over 40 hours
instrument time. Of that, probably 15 hours were spent just burning
time with a safety pilot - flying XC trips I would have flown anyway
but under the hood. I did it in less than six months start to finish.

Michael

120TT, 15 training with CFI and then I flew from CA to GA and back under the
hood to get the balance of the required 40hrs.

Mike
MU-2


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

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

Probably took me around 40-50 hours of dual, spread over a couple of
years. Would have been able to do it quicker if I had done a
concentrated course at the flight school (American Flyers) where I
finished up.

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

5 months
26 flights including the check ride
35 hours including the check ride, but I had 7 hours of hood time previously

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

Started Sept. 9, 1978 at 236 hrs., finished on December 12th at 293hrs
(57hrs...of which 48.5 was training related. Three months and three days).

Tom

--
“Any drinking or substance abuse problems?”

“Mr. Memphis, believe me, it would be a lie if I didn’t tell you some years
back, Bob Lee had a problem with the bottle and had some wild times. He’s
always in pain, you know, because of the way he was hurt in the war. But I
believe Bob Lee has found himself in some way. All he wants from life is
freedom and to be left alone.”

“What about medals? Has he ever said anything about medals? Are medals
important to him?”

“To Bob Lee? Let me tell you something, son—were you in the war or
anything?”

“No sir, I wasn’t.”

“Well, son, the only people that are interested in medals are the ones that
are fixing to run for office some day. I went from one side of Burma to the
other with General Merrill’s Marauders in 1943 and 1944, and the only man I
ever saw who wanted a medal or cared about a medal later became the only
governor of Colorado to be impeached.



Stephen Hunter, “Point of Impact”, Bantam Books, 1993, p115

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

Straight off the 8710:

207.8TT, 51.3XC
Instrument time: 40.2 simulated / 20 actual over 18 months, all with
my CFII
Also 5 hours in an AST-300.
Started 2/03, finished 9/04. (~18mos)

I know I could have trimmed calendar time off that (the written cost
me 3 months minimum), but I doubt I could have finished up much more
than 5 hours faster. Maybe 10 if I pushed super hard. The private took
me 70 hours to complete for comparison, with tons of delays.

-cwk.

From 11/02 till 5/04 (18 months) and 87.4 hours.

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
Student Mooney purchaser

STICKMONKE wrote:

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

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

*** About 70 hours dual, give or take. Passed my checkride last
Thursday.
Might have been quicker, except the hours were spread out over THREE
YEARS.
It seemed like every time I got going good, something would come up.
Like
getting laid off. Or being wrapped around the axle starting a new
business. Or finding airframe corrosion that grounded the airplane
for three months.

On the plus side, I learned all the procedures with IP Trainer
before starting. Must have spent 200 hours of quality time with that
program. Which is probably why it took 70 instead of 140.

- Jerry Kaidor ( )

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


Approximately 80+ hours as a guesstimate... Technically: 67.7 hours hood
time, 2 (YES a WHOPPING TWO) hours of actual (I'm getting this situation
'fixed' - gonna get lots more cloud time - most likely with a CFII watching
me for the next five to ten hours of REAL), 13 hours on the Frasca Sim.
..... So, about 80+ hours as I just said. Keep in mind that I was only
flying once a week (except during checkride prep time when I 'ate mac and
cheese' a lot wink so that I could have two sessions a week (2 hours+/per
session). Took me 1 year and 4 mos, but I'd guess that an unexpected
necessary surgery I had to have probably added two and-one-half to 3
additional months to the total. Otherwise it probably would have been about
a year, or maybe just a bit more than that.

It's not impossible to do, but you REALLY have to be dedicated... Getting
the conceptual stuff to adequately 'soak into your noggin' can be a REAL
exercise! Basically, what I did, was use as many different tools as
possible (videos, computer simulators (VOR/ADF/HSI simulator, On Top 8.0 - I
found these VERY valuable working through the conceptual stuff!), many
different books and practice, practice, practice grin!

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Good Flights!

Cecil
PP-ASEL-IA
Student - CP-ASEL

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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
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- Cecil Day Lewis -

I finished close to the absolute minimum - 31.5 hours
in the air (almost all hood time), 9 on a PCATD. I already
had around 250 hours when I started, and had been flying the
same airplane (Cherokee) for a couple of years.

--
Allen Johnson