Well, you are there for 30 days straight. Pretty much every day starts at 8am with a 3 or 4 hour session with an instructor (or two 2-hr sessions with two different instructors). Around noon or so people break for lunch and then come back to the classroom to prepare their individual lesson plans and practice teaching them to the rest of the class, giving and receiving critiques. In terms of the AF curriculum you will start with mind-numbing ground study in preparation for the FOI/CFI/I writtens. This is totally stupid and you would be better off doing it with Mr. Gleim. The text that AF has created and then makes you buy is a waste of money. Anyway following that you will be required to prepare CFII lesson plans first, then CFIA following that. THe CFII checkride comes first, about ten days into the thing. The CFII ride is done in house, no one ever fails it unless you are really ill prepared. The initial CFI with an FAA examiner is a much much harder ride. Hints: 1. bring a laptop computer 2. commute from a house or hotel closeby 3. if you can, finish the writtens ahead of time and then ask about entering the program after the first week. Don't know if this is possible but it sure would save some money and about a week of stupidity. The following three weeks are worth it though, dont get me wrong.