A question to all you CFI's

[bacardi]

I instructed 1997-1999 and I have about 1400 hrs of instructing time. I have been with an airline since, I renewed my CFII once. It has since lapsed. So my question is, how do you guys (or gals) recommend I go about getting it reinstated. (cheapest and quickest)
THANKS

 

[regionalcap]

The only way to reinstate it would be take the practical over again. Find an examiner.

 

[bacardi]

any quick online refresher courses that are worthwhile?

 

[bacardi]

Oh, please don't recommend anything from John and Martha King. I dont know why but I am asleep within 5 minutes of watching them.

 

[regionalcap]

oh come on. You know she is hot.

 

[340drvr]

Like regionalcap said above, if you've let your instructor "currency" lapse by not getting a renewal every two years, your only option is another checkride with an examiner. That said, you could take the Jeppesen/AOPA/Air Safety Foundation online refresher as a study aid (I renewed my CFII that way last time, it was an OK program) I haven't tried it, but I hear the Gleim version is good too. American Flyers supposedly has a one-time sign-up fee that provides "lifetime" access to their refresher program, but I can't speak to the quality, never tried it.

 

[fussle]

Just call some local DPEs, they should give you at least an idea of how the checkride will go. I have not had to renew it with a checkride, but I know someone that has. He called the DPE and was told he was going to have to teach holds. He just borrowed my jeppesen instrument manual, taught the ground lesson, and flew for around .5 which consisted of only a hold at a LOM.

 

[airplane wizard]

Get your MEI or CFI-I if you don't have it already. That would make you current again.