Do you keep your CFI current?

[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!