Your CFI certificate number is in fact your pilot certificate number ending with CFI. And no it does not end with a CFII or MEI, read my post about that as well. I got an email yesterday from a CFI, nicknamed Kazoo, asking me the following question: Its been years since I’ve taught and in [...]
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Social Security Number and CFI Certificate Number
by CFI Academy January 28, 2010 » Add the first comment.
Yohan Bathiya
by av8erprince January 8, 2010 » Add more comments.
I have been wanting to write about some of the most determined and focused students that I have ever had in my career as a Flight Instructor teaching new CFI applicants for a while now. There are many, but I have to start off somewhere. So this is the first one of the series. Yohan [...]
Siddharth Srinivasan, First Officer Colgan Air
by Sid December 18, 2009 » Add more comments.
Dear Prince, I received the best training and support from you in my aviation career. I remember walking into your office on my first day without much of an idea of how this was going to go. I had left my family several thousands of miles away, left a career to start a new one [...]
CFII and MEI Combination Course
by CFI Academy December 13, 2009 » Add the first comment.
Note: If you do not have 15 hours PIC required to qualify for an MEI checkride, you definitely should consider our CFII plus MEI combo course. Instead of renting a multi-engine airplane to meet the MEI course pre-requisites, you can use this same 10 hours towards your CFII flight training. This way you can better [...]
Can I take my initial CFI as a CFII
by CFI Academy December 12, 2009 » Add the first comment.
Question I have heard that I can be a CFII without getting my CFI. Is this possible? Answer Yes you can be a CFII without getting your CFI. In other words, you can be a certified flight instructor with an instrument airplane rating and not airplane single and/or multi-engine rating. Remember, Certified (certificated) flight instructor [...]
CFI Expired? How to Reinstate it? Part II
by CFI Academy November 29, 2009 » Add more comments.
Read the Part I of this series by clicking here. This post is in continuation of the discussion in the previous one. One important document that I missed to mention in the previous post was an FAA Advisory Circular AC61-65E. This document provides additional information on how to reinstate or renew a Flight Instructor certificate, [...]
CFI Expired? How to Reinstate it?
Many Pilots cum Flight Instructors, when they move on to the airlines business end up letting their CFI certificate expire. And then down the road when a need or the passion rekindles again, they realize that it has to be reinstated. So, the question arises: How do I go about renewing or reinstating my CFI [...]
Can Flight Instructor (CFI) checkride be considered as Flight Review?
We know that all pilots are required to go through a Flight Review each 24 calendar months as required by 14 CFR 61.56 . The paragraph (d) of this regulation states: “A person who has, within the period specified in paragraph (c) of this section, passed a pilot proficiency check conducted by an examiner, an [...]
