#200 Instrument Rating and CFII, get them done early as possible..

All right, day 200. Got a great question here. I'm Kenny, color creator, helicopter line, ground school 200 days, videos every day, training checkrides, highs, lows, all kinds of stuff. And this is a great one from Steven. He said, good morning sir, I want to thank you for the online ground school. Recently got a CFI pretty long email, so I'll get right to it. Basically he's in a situation where he just got to CFI on the 19th Friday and the chief instructor at his school basically said, I suggest you now finish your CFI 2 and then start working versus starting part time and finishing the CFI. And he goes on to say that the chief instructor said, you can easily become swamped and then that gets put to the side. I need some advice or help. I really like this question and I want to hit it in two different ways. Okay? He's got to make the choice for himself for sure. I say get that double I done and put it behind you because your chief instructor is right. You might start working, instructing and be working on the double I. Then you get a whole bunch of students and oh well, I'll finish it later. That double I is so important and you may not get it done. Then you'll find yourself 5 years, 10 years, 20 years into your career going, man, I wish I'd got that when I, when I had the opportunity. I get it that you want to start instructing and I admire that. But I think your chief instructor is right. I think you're already in the study mode. You just passed cfi. Get that double I done over with, out of the way and start working. That's my opinion. You can still make your own choice, but it's just like the instrument rating. Let's back up a minute. I think a person should do it between private and commercial. I did not. Then later, as an 800 hour pilot working as a CFI, I had to go out and get the instrument rating. It was harder to pick up studying again and it just took longer and in the end cost me more money. So when it comes to the instrument rating and this double I, you're gonna be money ahead. If you can pull off the instrument rating between private and commercial, you're going to save time. You're going to be building pic while you're working on your commercial. I didn't wish I would have. So there you go on that one and then the double I. I'll give you an example. Twenty years later, I still don't have it. And even when I was owned My own aircraft and I was flying ems. One of the Czech airmen was talking to me about the helicopter that I owned on the side and I was talking about, you know, it wasn't going well financially and I was thinking about dumping it. And he goes, before you dump that helicopter, get your double I, he, he goes, you need that rating. And he says, I would highly recommend you get it. Here I am 20 years later wishing I would have got it. There aren't that many instrument instructors out there in the helicopter scenario, so if you go ahead and get that double eye now, you're more marketable. And in his question he's saying, you know, they're basically offering him a job and I wouldn't even, you know, and I think he's worried about maybe waiting too long and then the job not being, not being available. If you can go to work at your flight school, that's great. But what you need to focus on is that double I is going to make you more marketable than the average Joe Blow cfi. And I'm an average Joe Blow cfi, so I'm not downing anyone. I'm saying I wish I had done it years ago when I was in the mode of studying, had instrument stuff fresh in my mind, should have done it years ago. So there's my opinion. I say hell with it, get that double eyed done and move on with your career. That's my, that's my choice. Put your comments down below, let us know what you think and I'll reiterate one more time. Best for your money, get your instrument between private and commercial and get that double eye done because you're going to be more marketable. It's going to make you a better pilot. You'll have more opportunities and you will not regret it by just going ahead and knocking that thing out. Alright, there you go. For say day 200 tomorrow be day 201. Got a couple more awesome questions still lined up but I'll save them for the next couple days. So do us a favor and like and subscribe the channel so you'll be notified of this daily video when you click subscribe, click that little bell and that's what will give you notifications each day. When our video comes out. I'm gonna put a link for helicopterground.com right below this video. You can go there to take our 24 hour test flight on our private commercial CFI instrument courses. There's monthly options and yearly options and then we have a big professional pilot package that includes all of those. 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