For your instrument ticket,
you still only need your third class medical that you got
with your private certificate. You still have to have passed
the written exam within the past 24 months. Hourly requirements
for an instrument ratings are as follows:
- 125 total hours which must include at least
- 50 hours of cross country time as PIC of which 10 must
be in an instrument rated plane
- 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time
- 15 hours of instrument flight training with an instructor,
in the appropriate aircraft category
- 3 hours of practical test prep within the previous 60
days
- At least once cross country flight under an IFR flight
plan
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