Any truth to this?

[Flight_Line]

I have heard from two diferent sources who do not know each other that the FAA is considering allowing CFIs to fly 135 with out the 135 check ride. Does any one know if there is any truth to this?
Personally, I am not so sure it would be a good thing. Immagine the glut of suddenly 135 qualified pilots who are desperate to do something other than instruct. Could be bad news for anyone trying to actually make a living doing charter.

 

[FL000]

Yes, but good news for anyone trying to make a living being a CFI.

 

[rice]

Now that is an oxymoron!!!

 

[whereamI]

What would be the overall purpose for the FAA to do such a thing. The company I work for uses their own company check airman to conduct 135 checkrides, which I am quite certain they would continue to conduct even if not required by the FAA. Before any company is going to send out one of their planes they will want to test the pilot in some manner. A 135 checkride isn't really anything other than an instrument check out. So from my perspective, what the FAA requires isn't going to change anything. I dont think any companies are going to hire a cfi and send them out on a night ifr run without first testing their skill level in some manner.

 

[Flywrite]

Apparently some professor drafted an NPRM to allow this and submitted it to the Feds. The laughed at him.

 

[sanford&son]

nprm

there is a whole thread about this on the main/ general forum. the actual nprm would allow cfi's who have 1000+ hrs and a few other qualifications to operate an ultra-limited air taxi type operation (6 or fewer pax, mgtow <12,500, VFR, and < 300 nm from point of origin).

this would neither negate the current need for 135 standards in virtually ALL existing charter ops, or take anything substantial out of their pockets. the same people who pay $8k to ride a lear from kbhm to kden will still do so.

if a cfi is not safely capable of making a 300nm vfr xc, then we should pull his ticket.

on the other thread, there was a strong negative reaction to the nprm, but perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction. instead of not allowing cfi's to do this, perhaps we should. and at the same time let's up the min hours required to become a cfi to ~1000. that way the sacred position of the faa's designated steward of aeronautical knowledge is not inherently a time-builder job. for that matter up the commercial mins too! just a thought.

i personally still don't see anything wrong with the nprm. it's not costing me anything. i just don't see the harm.

convince me,
lamont sanford

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Insurance companies will have the final

Even if the FARs are changed to let CFIs fly Part 135, It will be the insuarance companies that decide who flies the airplanes. The FAA can approve it, but if it can be insured, it won't fly.

Sad, but true.