How do you get to 300 hours to meet the mins to flight instruct?

[franknyc]

Prior to starting my lessons, I thought that all you needed was 150 hrs w/ commercial and CFI to teach. Then I found out it's really 200 hours TT to teach in the R22. Now, I'm being told that for insurance reasons, you need 300 hours!!! How do you get to 300 hrs TT? Pay for it or are there jobs you can do where you can be hired w/ 200hours?

[C.R.O.]

That's news to me! My instructor has less than 300 hours, and is instructing.

[RotorWeed]

Pathfinder says you need 300 hours of helicopter time to teach in a Robbie, plus the RHC training course, plus a SFAR 73 signoff.

[C.R.O.]

So do some schools have their insurance through a different company? I looked through a bunch of job postings, and there seems to be a range, some require 200hrs., some 250hrs., and some 300hrs.

[klmmarine]

My school has 1 aircraft that they assign a low instructor to, and they put it under another insurance policy so the CFI can instruct till he has 300 hrs then they change the insurance back to pathfinder.

 

So the easy answer is if the school wants you they can make it happen. It will cost them an arm and a leg but if it is worth it to them to have you as an instructor then they might.

[pat]

I believe the 300 hours may be waived, if you completed your training at the same school that you will be instructing at.

Thats what I've heard.

[Goldy]

Prior to starting my lessons, I thought that all you needed was 150 hrs w/ commercial and CFI to teach. Then I found out it's really 200 hours TT to teach in the R22. Now, I'm being told that for insurance reasons, you need 300 hours!!! How do you get to 300 hrs TT? Pay for it or are there jobs you can do where you can be hired w/ 200hours?

 

 

Frank, you will soon learn that the FAA regulations are the easy ones......

[apiaguy]

THAT is the big seller for the Schweizer 300. You can teach with 150 hours!! No SFAR, no pathfinder, no need for more hours.... some employers just want you to have more.

[500E]

First start the donk ?

[jehh]

Prior to starting my lessons, I thought that all you needed was 150 hrs w/ commercial and CFI to teach. Then I found out it's really 200 hours TT to teach in the R22. Now, I'm being told that for insurance reasons, you need 300 hours!!! How do you get to 300 hrs TT? Pay for it or are there jobs you can do where you can be hired w/ 200hours?

 

The R-22 does have a 200 hour requirement, due to the SFAR 73 regulations. You must also have 50 hours of R-22 time and a SFAR 73 CFI signoff to teach in the R-22.

 

Beyond that, various insurance companies have their own requirements, the most well known is Pathfinder Insurance which requires 300 hours total helicopter time to teach in the R-22.

 

AIG has a R-22 program that is generally 250 hours total helicopter time, however it is different from school to school.

 

As someone else said, this is one of the key selling points of the Schweizer 300, none of this SFAR 73 stuff to worry about.

 

Fly Safe!