Do you love your passion of flying so much that you want to pass it on to others by teaching them how to fly? The Flight Instructor Certificate can be a rewarding way to pass on your knowledge to students who want to build a career in aviation or just share a passion for flying. The Flight Instructor Certificate will challenge you to learn and understand topics that you can teach; making yourself and the students you are teaching better pilots. Firsthand experience handed down through many hours of practice and knowledge gained will help build your overall flight time so you can progress to the next journey in aviation. Can you flight instruct for a career? You sure can. Flight instruction is looked upon in the industry as a flight “time building” steppingstone. While this is true, the option to flight instruct for a career is certainly acceptable, as there are many student pilot applicants who want to learn how to fly.
Cost
The Certified Flight Instructor Certificate is typically the fastest and cheapest certificate to acquire. The majority of your training expense is ground instruction with a flight instructor. However, you will also pay the flight instructor for flight time as you display your growing teaching abilities in the air. The average cost for the Certified Flight Instructor course at Twin Cities Flight is about $6,000.
Prerequisites:
- 18 Years of age
- Commercial Pilot Certificate and Instrument Rating
- Valid FAA 3rd Class Medical
- Minimum 250 hours flight time
Timeline:
- Take part in ground training with a Certified Flight Instructor
- Pass Flight Instructor Airplane and Fundamentals of Instructing knowledge tests
- Train in an airplane with a CFI
- Pass CFI practical test
Twin Cities Flight provides a meticulous CFI training environment that will ensure you are ready to teach as soon as you pass your CFI practical test. We offer an intense accelerated training course that will allow you to develop teaching skills that will reflect the real-world training environment.
