Rod,
I would wait for at least a hundred or more hours before going for your
Instrument rating. You need time to get comfortable with the aircraft
and more ability to tell if it is you or the airplane that is
mis-behaving. Stick with one airplane and get very comfortable with it.
Take your Instrument training in that airplane.

A one week training course is a cram course to pass a test. In my
opinion you will learn little other than how to pass the test. This
makes you less safe once you have the rating than if you take you time
to understand what is going on at each phase of flight. Take you time,
you will retain more in the long run and will be safer after the initial
rating.

Michelle

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?




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