The CFI does not require a medical to instruct--but there must always
be a fully qualified PIC. In your senario you are correct in that if
the certificated pilot receiving traing is current the CFI does not
need a medical. The BFR presents a problem since the non-medicaled
CFI cannot legally act as safety pilot during hood work since he/she
is the PIC at that time. One way out is to do this work in actual
conditions as long as the pilot receiving training is current to act
as PIC in IMC.

Skip Guimond

Complicated--eh!!

Stewart Kissel wrote in message ...
'An airplane instructor may exercise the privileges
of that certificate without a medical. The 'student'
must be qualified to ACT as pilot in command since
the instructor cannot be.'

I cut this from the ASA discussion group, I lurk there
and cannot find a link to register to post. This is
not an attempt to backdoor the poster, just asking
this question:

If a pilot is still current while receiving a BFR,
the instructor is not the pilot in command? And if
the pilot receiving the BFR is still current, then
instructor does not need a current annual?
Curious about this.