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“Bonanza, cool aircraft, was it a V-tail?”

Yes, hence the wing shimmy. While we hadit we flew some fairly long trips with it to Mexico. But the “go through” at Mexically/Collexico was always an adventure unless you greased some palms, both ways.

“For civilians, last I checked, 200hrs and you can basically get paid for flying and 250hrs to get an instrument rating.”

Becoming an instrument rated pilot requires 40 hours of simulated or actual IFR conditions. How long this takes depends on how often you are able to fly. My father was a good civilian pilot and worked hard at the game. But it was about twice a month he could get under the hood with either myself or my mother who was a vfr rated pilot with right hand seat time.

rwood

You must have logged the following:

At least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command. At least 10 of these hours must be in airplanes for an instrument-airplane rating.

A total of 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time on the areas of operation listed in 61.65(c).

At least 15 hours of instrument flight training from an authorized instructor in the aircraft category for the instrument rating sought.

For instrument-airplane rating, instrument training on cross-country flight procedures that includes at least one cross-country flight in an airplane that is performed under instrument flight rules. This flight must consist of:
A distance of at least 250 nm along airways or ATC-directed routing.

An instrument approach at each airport.

Three different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems (Example: ILS, VOR, GPS, etc).

At least 3 hours of instrument training that is appropriate to the instrument rating sought from an authorized instructor in preparation for the checkride within two calendar months before the examination date.