Build flight experience quickly

As a Certified Flight Instructor, or CFI, you will be responsible for helping people realize their dream of flight. This is one of the most rewarding forms of flying you will engage in, both for yourself and countless others. In the process you will acquire skills that will serve you well in your future aviation endeavors and you can build flight experience quickly to meet airline and corporate hiring minimums.

Certified Flight Instructor Requirements

• The requirements found in 14 CFR § 61.183 states that a pilot must:

  • Be at least 18 years of age.

  • Be able to read, speak, write, and understand the English language.

  • Hold either a commercial pilot certificate or an airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate.

    • The certificate must be of the same category and class rating as the instructor category and class that is sought.

  • Hold an instrument rating.

  • Have at least 250 hours of total time.*

  • Hold at least a Third-Class FAA Medical certificate.

  *This hour requirement is not directly from 61.183. While the flight instructor certificate has no time minimum, the commercial certificate does. Hence the 250-hour requirement.