Gold seal requirments

[flightmahtman4n]

Do you have to take the AGI written to get your Gold Seal Instructor along with the 80% pass rate?

 

[tarp]

The FAA.gov site is down today (but you want to get the Advisory Circular). The gist of the rules are:

Applicants for gold seal flight instructor certificates must meet the following requirements:

a. The flight instructor must hold a commercial pilot certificate with an instrument rating (glider flight instructors need not hold an instrument rating) or an ATP certificate;

b. The flight instructor must hold a ground instructor certificate with an advanced or instrument ground instructor rating; and

c. The flight instructor must have accomplished the following within the previous 24 months:

(1) Trained and recommended at least 10 applicants for a practical test, at least 8 of whom passed their tests on the first attempt;

(2) Conducted at least 20 practical tests as a designated pilot examiner, or graduation tests as chief instructor of a 14 CFR part 141 approved pilot school course; or

(3) A combination of the above requirements. (Two practical tests conducted equal the credit given for one applicant trained and recommended for a practical test.)

 

[vossdr1]

AC-61-65D is the advisory circular.

 

[jetdriven]

the agi written is the commercial written all over again. the IGI is the instrument, Take them both at the same time, easy enough.

 

[bobbysamd]

Ground instructor certificates

the agi written is the commercial written all over again. the IGI is the instrument, Take them both at the same time, easy enough.

. . . and, as a CFI, you have already taken the FOI written. After you take the ground instructor writtens, all you have to do is fill out an 8710, take it and your written test reports to FSDO, and you will receive a Ground Instructor temporary. Very easy process.

Good luck with the writtens.