Touch the clouds with your instrument rating

N2BN Instrument Training Package

$2400

Includes:

  • Instrument training designed to prepare you for your instrument checkride and beyond

  • 12 instrument ground and flight lessons

  • 30 hours of flight training time

  • Ground instruction for each flight lesson

  • 15 hours of XC training time

  • 25 hours of training by reference to instrument

  • Scheduling to meet your timetable

Does not include airplane costs, designated pilot examiner fee or equipment

Additional instruction is available at a rate of $75 per hour if required to build proficiency

Recommended Prerequisites

The N2BN Instrument Package is designed to help you reach your instrument rating in a structured, comprehensive but cost effective schedule. To be able to reach all instrument rating requirements in the program timeline, we recommend the following prerequisites

  • Hold a private pilot certificate

  • 35 hours of cross country time as pilot in command

  • 15 hours of flight time by reference to instrument

  • Instrument Airplane knowledge test completed or scheduled with concurrent enrollment in home study course (contact us for recommendations)

How to achieve prerequisites

Once you earn your private pilot certificate, the flying world opens up to you. We recommend spending some time flying to new airports to build cross country time and experience the joys of being a pilot. One way to do this effectively is to find another pilot rated friend and log time with or as a safety pilot.

When do you need a safety pilot?

Any time you are logging simulated flight be reference to instrument, another pilot must be seated next to you in a position to help you see and avoid other traffic. This is a safety pilot. If you have simulated instrument time in your logbook, you also need either an instructor signature or the name of your safety pilot.

What time can you log time as a safety pilot?

As a safety pilot, you can log time when you are a required crew member on the plane. In our single engine trainers, this is when the manipulator of the controls is under the hood and the plane is operating in visual meteorological conditions. At other times, such as during takeoff, landing or in instrument meteorological conditions, the safety pilot is not required and cannot log time. When logging time, this can either be PIC time (if the safety pilot is determined to be the person responsible for the safety of the flight) or SIC time (if not). It is important to note that a safety pilot can not log cross country time towards an instrument rating or commercial certificate because they do not perform landing (see 14 CFR 61.1 (b))

An example

You and a pilot rated friend decide to split an out and back cross country flight in visual meteorological conditions. You have decided on both legs that the safety pilot is the individual responsible for the safety of the flight. On the way out you are the safety pilot and your friend is the manipulator of the controls. On the way back, you are the manipulator of the controls and your friend is the safety pilot. The total time on the outbound leg is 1.5 hours, of which your friend was under the hood for 1.2 hours. On the way back, the total time is once again 1.5 hours and you are under the hood for 1.2 hours. You would log the following.

2.7 hours total time and PIC time

1.5 hours PIC cross country time

1.2 hours simulated instrument time and the name of the safety pilot