What is the Flight Instructor Certificate?
The flight instructor certificate allows you to teach someone how to fly.
Why would you want to get your Flight Instructor Certificate?
If you ever decide to become an airline pilot; the flight instructor certificate is a good idea to get. Before the airline will hire you, you will have to build your time and experience. You can either pay for all your flight time (very expensive) or you can become a flight instructor, build your hours and experience and get paid for it at the same time. This is the route that most pilots take to get to the airlines.
A person who holds a flight instructor certificate is authorized to give training and endorsements required for, and relating to]
- a student pilot, private pilot, commercial pilot or other pilot certificates;
- an instrument rating, only if the CFI has an Instrument Instructor Rating (CFII); This cannot be given by a "Safety pilot". A safety pilot can only be used to help "maintain instrument proficiency" with a "certified instrument rated pilot" by flying the required six instrument approaches, within six months.
- a flight instructor certificate, only if he has meet the experience requirements;
- a ground instructor certificate;
- a flight review, endorsement (BFR), or recency of experience requirement;
- a practical test; or
- a knowledge test (written examination)
Certain limitations are placed on the instruction a flight instructor may give; for example, flight instructors wishing to train applicants for a flight instructor certificate must have held their own flight instructor certificate for at least 24 months and given at least 200hrs of instruction. Specific training programs have additional requirements or limitations.
Eligibility Requirements:
To be eligible for a flight instructor certificate or rating a person must:
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Be able to read, speak, write, and understand the English language.
- Hold either a commercial pilot certificate or airline transport certificate
- Pass the required written test - Both the Fundamentals of Instruction and Areas of Aeronautical Knowledge.
- Pass the required Practical Test
- Log at least 15 hours as pilot in command in the category and class of aircraft that is appropriate to the flight instructor rating being sought
Other flight instructor certificates:
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