Add Your CFII and Teach Instrument Students
A Certified Flight Instructor Instrument rating lets you give instrument instruction and sign off instrument students. It is the natural step after your initial CFI, and it widens the kind of instructing you can be paid for while you build hours.
You add it after your initial CFI certificate, and dispatch can lay the two out back to back so you are not waiting between them.
Book a Discovery FlightWhat the CFII Adds to Your Logbook and Your Week
With a CFII you can teach approaches, holds, partial panel work and IFR cross country planning, and you can endorse instrument students for their checkrides. That is a different and steadier stream of students than primary training alone, particularly in a place where weather gives instrument work real urgency.
It also changes the conversation in a job interview. A CFI who can also teach instrument is more useful to a school on day one.
Train Where the Simulator Lives
Our Redbird FMX gives you somewhere to teach approaches, holds and partial panel without burning airplane hours or waiting on the weather. Learning to instruct in the simulator as well as the airplane makes you more valuable to a school and less expensive for your students.
Call (208) 996-8645 and ask what a CFII timeline looks like on your schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a CFII?
A Certified Flight Instructor Instrument rating. It lets you give instrument instruction and sign off instrument students, which an initial CFI certificate alone does not.
Do I need my CFI first?
Yes. The CFII is added to an existing flight instructor certificate, so the initial CFI comes first. We can schedule them back to back.
What is involved in earning it?
Ground training on teaching instrument procedures, flight training with an instructor, a knowledge test, and a practical test with an examiner.
Can I use the simulator for CFII training?
Yes. Our Redbird FMX is well suited to instrument work, and learning to teach in it is part of what makes a CFII employable.
Why add a CFII instead of just instructing primary students?
Instrument students give you a second stream of work, the instruction tends to be steadier through the year, and the hours you log are the kind employers and insurers pay attention to.