this is a good page with some pointers
http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/inst_reports.cfm
and use this checklist before you go good luck
Check List for Eligibility & Prerequisites for CFI Initial Flight Test:
___ OMB Authorized FAA Form 8710.1 (with a DOT Seal and printed two sides on one sheet) (See special instructions on page 2 of: Oct, ’99 issue of “Examiner Update” newsletter)
___ Signature plus Printed name & phone number of Recommending CFI on top of rear page.
___ Recommending CFI must be qualified to recommend. 61.195 (h)(2)
___ Applicant has current Photo ID which shows physical address (two IDs if non-US citizen)
___ Pilot Certificate (appropriate to aircraft being used for this flight test)
___1. Commercial or ATP w/ category & class rating 61.183 (c)(1)
___2. Instrument rating (not req’d for FI-Rotorcraft or Glider) 61.65 (a)(1)
___ Medical certificate - (third class minimum) 61.23 (c) & 61.39 (a)(4)
___ Minimum age - 18 61.183 (a)
___ English Language (read, speak, write, & understand) 61.183 (b)
___ Knowledge Test Results (or 141 School Grad’ Cert) 61.185 (a) & 61.39 (a)
___1. Fundamentals Of Instruction (FOI) exception à 61.185 (b)
___2. Flight Instructor, Airplane (FIA)
___ Bring All Pilot Logbooks to Flight Test 61.51 (a) (1)
___1. 15 hours as PIC in category & class 61.51 (b) & 61.183 (j)
___2. Qualified to act as PIC? (Recency of experience?) 61.51 (b) & 61.57 (a)
___3. Qualified to act as PIC? (Flight Review – “BFR”?) 61.56 (c)(1) and (2)
___4. Instrument PIC Recency? (if necessary this flight) 61.51 (g) & 61.57 (c)
___5. Flight Proficiency Endorsement - ( < 60 days ) 61.187 (a)
* ___6. Aeronautical Knowledge Endorsement - 61.183 (d) & 61.185 (a) or (b)
* (did the Authorized Instructor enter & sign in Logbook the Ground Training req’d by 61.51(b)(1)?)
___7. Spin endorsement - (to Instructional Proficiency) 61.183 (i)(1)
___8. Complex aircraft endorsement - 61.31 (e) (1) or (2)
___9. High Performance endorsement - (if applicable) 61.31 (f) (1) or (2)
__10. Tailwheel aircraft endorsement - (if applicable) 61.31 (i) (1) or (2)
__11. Pressurized aircraft endorsements - (if applicable) 61.31 (g) (1) & (2) or (3)
___ Required equipment: Airworthy Aircraft with dual controls (shoulder harness preferred)
Aircraft Documents --(A R R O W)
___(a) Airworthiness certificate
___(b) Registration certificate
___(c) Radio Station License (required only if outside 48 states)
___(d) Operating limitations
___(e) Weight & Balance
Aircraft / Engine(s) / Prop’(s) Maintenance Records- 91.213 (a) (c) or (d)
___(a) Logbook record of airworthiness inspections
___(b) Current record of compliance with all Airworthiness Directives
___ Bring copy of POH or AFM to Oral Exam (including copy of current Weight & Balance data)
___ Headset, other Personal Equipment & Flight Instructor “Tools of the Trade”
___(a) View limiting device 61.45 (d)(2)
___(b) Current aeronautical charts (including IFR charts only if necessary).
___(c) Computer & plotter
___(d) Electronic Calculator (if desired)
___(e) Flight logs; blank Flight Plan forms; & blank Weight & Balance forms
___(f) Practical Test Standard
___(g) Current AIM, A/FD, AIM, FARs, and ACs including AC-61-65D.
___(h) Model airplane for classroom instruction demonstrations (or use hands).
___ Bring an extensive written Weather briefing to be used in the oral exam (AO III, task B)
(DUAT, Internet or Computerized Weather or a thorough handwritten AFSS briefing) (which includes METAR, TAF, local observations, term forcasts, notams, pireps, etc).
___ WX training aids for your own use? -- Bring a reference list of common
