CFI planning aid

Part 61 Calculator

Your next rating. A clearer path to get there.

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Goal

What do you want to work toward?

Choose a certificate or rating. Add another goal to plan a longer training path.

Pilot background

What do you already hold?

Military or record details

Experience

Let’s look at your experience.

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Enter the relevant totals from your logbook. Use 0 for time you have not logged; a blank means you still need to check.

Hours can overlap. One flight may count toward total, airplane, and cross-country time. Enter each logbook total as recorded; don’t add these categories together.

Logged Events

Cost estimateReview your hourly rates
Dual rate: $230/hr Solo/PDPIC/time-building: $185/hr

Planning assumptions only. Adjust these to your aircraft and instructor. Aircraft wet rate includes fuel; dual adds the instructor rate.

Your plan starts with your experience.

Complete the relevant logbook fields to see your next training, remaining hours, and cost estimate.

Your training plan

Ready for a scenario

Your training, in order

Instructor detailsRequirements, endorsements & sources
Instructor readout
Select the pilot's current credentials, enter known hours, choose the target path, then calculate.
How this path was calculated
Select the pilot's current credentials, enter known hours, choose the target path, then calculate.

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