FI(A) renewal - validity of instructional experience in a non-JAR country?

[mad_jock]

Lord knows I did point out that the reason why aircraft have stick pushes was because that some aircraft types won't recover because of super stall.

As for doing it with an engine turned off......

I presume that most of the guys doing it just signed it off and didn't do what the test schedual said. I was told later in the pub that the locals don't do the inflight shutdowns. Again blank faces when I asked how they knew that the engines wound down slow enough that the fire bottles could be used.

And again the in flight shutdown by chopping the fuel and letting it wind down on the NTS was just plain daft.

[BEagle]

...the 11000hr+ RAF A2QFI who is CFI...

Well, as a mere 10000hr ex-RAF A2QFI myself, I would be quite interested to know why he is prepared to accept training being delivered by unqualified instructors. The RAF learned from that back in the 1950s....

Still, if you're not prepared to say from within which corner of the third world this organisation operates, so be it.

[Trim Stab]

I just spoke to my licensing authority and they confirmed to me that under their regulations any instructional experience counts towards revalidation of my FI(A) qualification. Their currency requirements are that candidates have recent INSTRUCTIONAL experience and the type, class, jurisdiction etc is not relevant.

Somewhat surprising considering that my authority is usually one of the most pedantic and meticulous when it comes to finding excuses to stop people flying!

Well, as a mere 10000hr ex-RAF A2QFI myself, I would be quite interested to know why he is prepared to accept training being delivered by unqualified instructors.

Well as the saying goes, you never stop learning in flying:-)

[Whopity]

under their regulations any instructional experience counts towards revalidation of my FI(A) qualification.

I thought you said you held a JAA rating which is subject to JAA and now EASA regulations! The revalidation requirements are:

(a) For revalidation of a FI(A) rating the
holder shall fulfill two of the following three
requirements:
(1) completed at least 100 hours of
flight instruction on aeroplanes as FI, CRI, IRI
or as examiner during the period of validity of
the rating, including at least 30 hours of flight
instruction within the 12 months preceding
the expiry date of the FI rating, 10 hours of
this 30 hours shall be instruction for an IR if
the privileges to instruct for IR are to be
revalidated;

The 100 hours was reduced to 50 by long term exemption. Unless you hold a JAA CRI or IRI rating hours gained in those categories do not count regardless of what the Authority may say. Somewhere you have to find an examiner to accept it, if not you will have to send it to the relevant Authority for a Clerk to authorise it.

[Trim Stab]

I do hold a JAA Licence. But instructor qualifications were not covered by JAA regulations and were nationally awarded and regulated, then added to a JAA licence.

It used to be up to individual JAA countries to decide on the course syllabus, renewal requirements, and indeed whether qualifications from other countries were acceptable (hence in France only French-qualified FI(A)'s were accepted). The French renewal requirements are still slightly different from those that you quote.

Is there now such a thing as a JAA instructor rating?

[Whopity]

Is there now such a thing as a JAA instructor rating?

No, but as of 8th April there is an EASA FI rating which is largely the same thing and it is binding in EU Law. The exact implementation date depends upon any transition periods notified by the National Authorities. The UK introduced JAA FI rules in 1999, but retained National Limitations because their software couldn't cope with the changes.