You're a Commercial pilot heading toward the airlines — that requires 1,500 PIC hours, and time-building is expensive. Stop paying to fly. Start getting paid to fly. The CRAFT CFI initial gets you teaching from the right seat in 10 to 12 days.
The 1,500-hour gap between your Commercial and your ATP is the biggest expense in most pilots' careers — unless you flip the equation. Get paid to log time by teaching. CRAFT runs an active flight school with steady student flow, so newly-minted CFIs typically start instructing right away.
Most pilots' biggest career expense is the gap between Commercial and the airline minimums. At $200 per hour solo, that's a six-figure problem.
As a CFI you're not paying for those hours — you're getting paid for them. The economics flip the moment your name shows up on a logbook endorsement.
And there may be opportunities to instruct at CRAFT after earning your rating. Contact us about an interview.
Run the courses sequentially — about 4 extra days on the trip — and finish both. The CFI-I is a $4,950 add-on when bundled, saving over the separate course price.
The biggest reason "accelerated" stops being accelerated isn't instruction — it's checkrides. CFI initials are the longest checkrides on the books, which makes DPE availability even more critical. CRAFT plans for it from day one.
"Train. Test. Finish."
Accelerated training isn't about rushing. It's about removing the biggest bottleneck in the system.
Tell us where you are: hours, knowledge tests done, target start. We'll get you on the schedule.