Instrument Rating

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Don't let weather restrict your flights, earn your instrument rating for enhanced skills and freedom.

Colorado Heli-Ops offers the Instrument Rating Course for helicopter pilots of all levels. This rating will enhance your skills and gives you the necessary knowledge to safely navigate a helicopter with reference solely to the flight instruments. Although its not always possible to fly through all weather types, this rating will allow you the freedom to safely navigate and fly a helicopter without outside visual references.

Even if you are never going to fly through a cloud, this rating will greatly increase your skill level and make you a more competent and well rounded pilot. This course is available to holders of Private, and Commercial Pilot Certificates, and is taught by our most experienced Flight Instructors. 

Prerequisites:

  1. Hold at least a current Private Pilot or Commercial Pilot Certificate with an aircraft category and class rating that applies to the instrument rating sought (Helicopter Private/Commercial Pilot Certificate).
  2. Be able to read, speak write and understand the English language.

 

Steps to get an Instrument:

  1. Pass a written knowledge test to FAA standards.
  2. Fulfill the minimum requirements of flight time and training specified by the FAA (see below). 
  3. Pass an oral, and flight test (Practical Test) given by the FAA or an approved Designated Pilot Examiner.

 

Minimum requirements for an Instrument Rating:

  1. A person who applies for an instrument rating must have logged the following:
  2. At least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command
  3. A total of 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time that include--
    1. At least 15 hours of instrument flight training from an authorized instructor in the aircraft category (Helicopter) for which the instrument rating is sought;
    2. At least 3 hours of instrument training that is appropriate to the instrument rating sought from an authorized instructor in preparation for the practical test within the 60 days preceding the date of the test;
  4. For an instrument -- helicopter rating, instrument training specific to helicopters on cross-country flight procedures that includes at least one cross-country flight in a helicopter that is performed under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), and consists of--
    1. A distance of at least 100 nautical miles along airways or ATC directed routing;
    2. An instrument approach at each airport; and
    3. Three different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems

Course Costs:

  Hours Price Total
Schweizer 300c rental
 40 $290 $11,600
Dual Flight Instruction 40 $45 $1,800
Ground Instruction
 30 $35 $1,050
FAA Written Test   $100 $100
Books and Supplies
  $150 $150
FAA Examiner Fee
  $400 $400
 TOTAL COST
   $15100

 

PLEASE NOTE:

Our prices are subject to change without prior notice. The Instrument course is structured and based on the FAA minimum requirements.  We have found that the most students finish the Instrument Rating in the minimum number of hours so in the case of this rating, the minimums are also the averages unlike the Private Certificate. It is not guaranteed you will complete the training in the minimum/average number of hours.

 

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