Building hours with a view of the coast
Commercial certificate training and the CFII add-on, one on one at Merritt Island Airport. For pilots turning flying into a career, structured so every hour counts.
The commercial certificate is the gateway to every working pilot job: instructing, charter, survey, jump pilots, and eventually the airlines. The flying is sharper too, with precision maneuvers flown to tighter standards than you have been held to before.
Those are the Part 61 headline minimums. Where you are against them determines the plan: some pilots need the full build, others just need the training flights and polish for the checkride.
Already teaching? The CFII add-on lets you teach instrument students, fly in more weather with them, and stay bookable year round. On the Space Coast, the CFIs who can teach IFR are the ones whose calendars stay full.
Teaching the scan from the right seat, building instrument lesson plans, and prepping for the practical test, with an instructor who holds the CFII and teaches with it. You learn to teach it, not just to fly it.
If the airlines are the destination, the order of operations matters: instrument, commercial, then instructor ratings, sequenced so your time building and your training overlap instead of stacking. Gretchen puts the plan on paper with the sequencing worked out and a straight answer on cost.
Not instrument rated yet? Start there →