How much on average does instument flight training cost?

I'll make some assumptions:

You're a Student Pilot or a fresh Private pilot with less than 75-100 hours.

You'll be looking at a relatively cheap option, likely a single-engined land airplane like a Cessna 172 equipped for IFR training.

Your goal is to be "instrument rated" at the end of the training

Anyways, you'll need time in ground school, simulator time, and actual "hood" time in th e airplane...its not cheap, but its not too bad either.

A flight school here in Arizona offers an 11-day Instrument program for folks like the above for around $5500, inclusive of the above mentioned training. You'd be in a C-172, get lots of good ground school time, lots of sim time, a competant instructor, and quite a few hours in the cockpit as well.

I'd bet the cheapest to be $4000, the most expensive to be around $7000.

Good luck to ya!

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