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1500 PIC Must certify having a combination of 100 hours of hooded instrument, flight simulator instrument, or weather pilot time. Must have instructed students in instrument flight training. Night Flying - 75. (Night + NVG = Total Night Flying) Instructor Time - 500. One challenge nowadays is must weigh 250lbs or less in your flight gear. Instrument phase is least structured and most fun to teach. Long phase in nice FlightSafety Level D sims. For flight portion you're only limited by fuel range. Tons of different approaches in the area and many FBO's in the panhandle area have free chow when you get gas. Primary is brutal as always but it's arguably the least dangerous phase now as the only touchdown maneuvers are set down from a hover (land) and the occasional run-on landing (no anti-torques to the ground and no touchdown autos). You'll get to teach both phases; it's no longer just an instrument or just Primary section. It's certainly not the life for everyone. Silly Army reindeer games all the time (some stupid new rule to follow, a power trip individual getting upset at people about something, a new SOP with really stupid changes without fixing things that needed to be changed, etc.), it's REALLY hot on the flightline and in the Lakota dealing with students who don't study or practice pre-flight/run-on which can be maddening (WAY worse than years prior), and you're always studying as an IP to be on your game (I forgot how nice it is to be a line pilot when I left Rucker and was not expected to explain something "by the book" to someone all the time the way the Army expects you to!). The students now are BRUTAL too. Imagine the occasional dumb or frustrating attitude student of years past... that's all of them now. Very few exceptional ones. Yes, that sounds cranky but ask ANY young or old IP down there about it: we saw it happen between 2015-2020. It's legit. Just warning you that it takes patience and an "Office Space" mind-set to work there. Great pay and benefit and work schedule though.