Amish RakeFight
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Oh and the school I went to is now CLOSED.....
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Oh and the school I went to is now CLOSED.....
A CFI - IA only can only teach instruments in a simulator. He/She cannot conduct any flight training in an aircraft.
I know it is being done - and gets blessed by DE's and the FAA, because it used to be that way. That regulation above did not exist until relatively recently, and some of those old dogs just cannot get the change.
But anybody can read the reg and see what it means.
My only point is that physicall saying everytime "Im a CFIASEL" is conversationally exhaustive.Cheers!
61.195 Flight Instructor Limitations and Qualifications.What is your reference for this if that is true?
Yeah, with that kind of contribution to the effort, we're glad you don't, anymore, too.Damn, I'm glad I don't flight instruct anymore.
As you know Part 61 was re-written a few years ago and what followed were hundreds of FOQA's on this section. So many that the section is going to rewritten again, or so I hear. There has never been a section of the regulations that has ever had so much confusion that there were so many questions on it. So I blame the fact that the regulation was written wrong and it was not its intention to stop a CFI-IA from teaching instrument in an airplane. While it does appear that what you say it does say, the fact remains that no Office anywhere (that I know of) is interpreting it that way, including the Certification branch that wrote the IACRA program.61.195 Flight Instructor Limitations and Qualifications.
(b) Aircraft Ratings. A flight instructor may not conduct flight training in any aircraft for which the flight instructor does not hold:
(1) A pilot certificate and flight instructor certificate with the applicable category and class rating.
As I posted in my orginal post; the FAR itself in black-and-white. Do you not see it? And did I not say that I know this reg is being broken all over the place because DE's and even FSDO's have not caught up with this change in regulation. There may be a legal opinion that contradicts this Flight Instructor Limitation, but I haven't seen it yet.
Well, the certification branch won't catch it, because you can get a CFI-IA only. That doesn't stop them from certifying you that way - it is up to the CFI to comply with his/her limitations.including the Certification branch that wrote the IACRA program.
Look there is no such thing as a CFIASEL either. There is a CFIASE but no land or sea. And again, is a CFI-G a CFI? Of course he his. Is a CFIRH a CFI? Is a CFIRG a CFI? Is a CFIIA a CFI? All of these are CFI's. While you and your friends may all think of a CFI as a CFIASE and that everyone thinks this, that's just because they are all wrong and its a misnomer. Just like everyone calling a "Flight Review" a "Bi-Annual flight review. Of course that is a misnomer too, because it is a Biennial Flight Review. Bi-Annual means twice a year and Biennial means every two years. So just because all your friends call it a Biannual that doesn't make it correct. And just as you think a CFI is a CFIASE, that is just not correct. A CFI is a Certified Flight Instructor and that is all. And all seven CFI’s are CFI’s too.
Who get's the CFI-IA only anyway?
Get both. Problem solved. There are many more private students than instrument students anyhow.