Ground CFI Ticket

[Weasil]

Hey Bobby, you forgot to mention that the AGI was needed when you got your GOLD SEAL.

 

[bobbysamd]

Gold Seal CFI

Hey Bobby, you forgot to mention that the AGI was needed when you got your GOLD SEAL.

You are absolutely right. Gold Seal CFI requirements are set forth in AC 61-65D:

18. GOLD SEAL FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATES. The specific requirements for the gold seal flight instructor certificate are contained in FAA Orders 8700.1, General Aviation Operations Inspector’s Handbook, and 8710.3C, Pilot Examiner’s Handbook. Flight instructor certificates bearing distinctive gold
seals are issued to flight instructors who have maintained a high level of flight training activity and who meet special criteria. Once issued, a gold seal flight instructor certificate will be reissued each time the instructor's certificate is renewed. 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.)

(emphasis added)

Another good reason for getting a Ground Instructor certficate. Really, it's very little trouble and the writtens are repetition of exams all CFIs have already taken.

 

[dasmith]

I thought that was reduced down to 5 applicants (4 which must have passed). Not true?
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[avbug]

No need to reduce down. It's always been:

14 CFR 61.197(a)(2)(i)

§ 61.197 Renewal of flight instructor certificates.

(a) A person who holds a flight instructor certificate that has not expired may renew that certificate by -

(2) Presenting to an authorized FAA Flight Standards Inspector -

(i) A record of training students showing that, during the preceding 24 calendar months, the flight instructor has endorsed at least five students for a practical test for a certificate or rating and at least 80 percent of those students passed that test on the first attempt

 

[dmspilot00]

AvBug, I think you are mixing up requirements to renew a flight instructor certificate and requirements to earn a Gold Seal certificate.

 

[dasmith]

So I thought that the FAA standardized the gold seal requirement with the scripture that avbug quoted...
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[dmspilot00]

So I thought that the FAA standardized the gold seal requirement with the scripture that avbug quoted...
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It doesn't say anything about gold seal in the regulation that avbug quoted. There isn't anything in the regulations about the gold seal requirements, it's only found in the AC bobbysamd quoted.