To hone skills and enhance later employment opportunities many pilots elect to undergo instructors rating.
The professional challenges of being an instructor will undoubtedly make a candidate more employable either on a part time of full-time basis. Instructors have the edge.
The rating also offers more career opportunities and dividends later as training captain in an airline.
Obtaining an instructors rating is invariably money well invested. The initial rating is a Grade III instructor and after at least 50 hours instruction the test may be undertaken with a CAA approved designated examiner.
Instrument Rating Requirements
- Valid Commercial Pilots License
- Minimum 31 hours of ground lectures
- Minimum 20 hours air exercises or ‘patter'
- Once you have completed this phase you will complete the theoretical exam in two subjects
- Practical skills test is both lecturing and air exercises with an approved CAA designated examiner