good luck with the course,
just out of interest and for something of a comparison, the UK military Central Flying School helicopter instructors course lasts 3 to 4 months, includes 4 weeks of solid ground school (that must be at least 125 hours although it feels like a lot more) and 80 hours of flying, AND at the end the CAA won't recognise the qualification until you've done a couple of hundred hours of military instructing and that has to be on a type on the civil register.
They won't even recognise a Squirrel rating gained through the military until you have 800+ hours as it hasn't been gained with a TRTO!