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Ratings · FI

Flight instructor rating

Teach others to fly. The instructor rating is how many commercial pilots build hours, earn while they wait for an airline seat, and become sharper pilots themselves.

  • 8 weeks
  • 30 hrs
  • From ₦11,200,000
  • Next intake 4 May
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A trainee sitting in the cockpit of a light aircraft
2 seats left for 4 May

How the course runs

A typical full time timetable. Weekend and modular students follow the same order at their own pace.

  1. 01

    Weeks 1 to 4: teaching and learning

    How adults learn, lesson planning, long briefings and the classroom skills, with feedback on every brief.

  2. 02

    Weeks 3 to 7: air exercises

    Thirty hours flying every exercise of the private syllabus from the right seat, with your trainer as the student.

  3. 03

    Week 8: assessment

    Assessment of competence with an examiner, including a long brief and a flight.

What the fee covers

Included

  • 30 hours NW-1 flying, fuel and fees
  • Teaching and learning course
  • Assessment aircraft
  • Instructor manual and briefing notes

Not included

  • Authority fees
  • Extra flying hours

Fees, phase by phase

Example rates for the 2026 intakes. You pay each phase before it begins, by transfer, card or POS at the Ikoyi office.

Fees by phase for Flight instructor rating
Teaching and learning₦2,100,000
Air exercises, 30 hours₦8,500,000
Assessment₦600,000
Total, example₦11,200,000

Hold your seat for 4 May

A seat deposit of ₦250,000 holds your place for 30 days and comes off phase one.

Pay with Receivly (demo). Refundable within 14 days.

Entry requirements

  • Commercial licence, or private licence with 200 hours
  • Commercial theory passed
  • Pre-entry flight test with our head of training
A small white aircraft parked outside a hangar

On the course

Questions people ask

Will you employ me afterwards?

We often recruit our own instructors, but it depends on student numbers. We never promise a job with the course.

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Ready to talk it through?

Book a discovery flight, or send your questions to admissions. We reply within one working day, usually on WhatsApp.