"Jim" wrote in message
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| You're right about the instruction required, and that part of it raised a
| question in my mind at the time. I didn't pursue it any further. I'll
tell
| you something even funnier... I actually had a CFI argue with me telling
me
| that he thought he should be able to give HIMSELF a BFR!
| --

There once was a loophole in the regulations where this was legal. That
loophole has been closed with specific language preventing.