Originally Posted by MikeB525
I remember my current instrument instructor implying that you can learn your CFI stuff while time building towards your commerical certificate. He said some people will do their Commercial checkride one week and then their CFI checkride the next.
Other than spin training, there are no actual flight time or dual received requirements to take the CFI (or CFII or MEI) checkride, so you can simply train to profiency.
We would try to talk our students into doing their commercial training from the right seat; that way they would be 90% ready for their CFI upon completion of the commercial. Since there's a lot of dead space academically speaking while doing commercial time building, that's a good time to work on CFI lesson plans...you will rock your commercial checkride if you're into the CFI stuff at that point.