Do you keep your CFI current?

[AV80R]

If you are a part 121 or 135 pilot who is in a position to evaluate other people, you should be able to bring your 8710 form to an FAA inspector and he/she should be able to sign you off. It might be faster if you go to your own POI.

It varies from FSDO to FSDO. From what I've been told you must be a current check airman in order to have it renewed. Being a part 121 (or 135) captain is not enough.

Having said that, many inspectors will renew it anyways because:

- They aren't sure about the rules, and/or because
- They don't care...

 

[piav8r]

After going through the iron mike mei checkride... I'm taking that license to the grave with me!

 

[AAflyer]

Yes,

Still current!!!!

AAflyer

 

[spitfire1500]

Mine will always be current....that was the checkride from hell!!

 

[puck_11]

For all the work and money that you put into it, and for how cheap and easy it is (American Flyers) to renew it, you would be an idiot to let it expire. I don't plan on instructing until I'm done with the military, but after I would love to teach aerobatics for fun again.

 

[harleyman]

I keep it alive, although I would need to jump back into the books again before I would try to instruct.

I worked hard for it and never intend to let it die.

 

[30West]

What for? And please don't come up with the "resume builder" theory, because if you need to show that you can run around the pattern with a student to bump your resume. That is sad

I guess it really IS better that some let theirs go.......

 

[skyaddict]

I was doing a great job using American Flyers lifetime renewal system until one day, while in initial training in sims (post-furlough job) I graduated in the renewal course, but was too cheap ($25, now I'll have to go spend $700 or so) to have AF do the paperwork, and failed to bring the grad. cert. into the FSDO on time - missed it by one day. So one of these days I am going to dust off the cobwebs and shoot a few approaches on a CFII ride (with a DE because the inspectors are all too busy anyhow) and renew everything in one shot.

I'd badly like to get back into a little piston GA, but I already notice that since I was last instructing, $100 hamburgers have turned into $250 hamburgers.

 

[Fozzy]

Why? Complete waste of money if you don't stay current. If I was to instruct I would need a serious refresher anyways. And it is not like I would go back to work instructing. I does not pay enough.

 

[outsidethecloud]

After going through the iron mike mei checkride... I'm taking that license to the grave with me!

I hear you!!!! I saw Iron Mike in the cities once and had an episode of PTSD!! And I took the ride 11 years ago!