"Skip Guimond" wrote in message
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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!!

Flying under the hood does not make the CFI the PIC - so long as the flight
is conducted in VMC and the "student" is approximately rated he remains PIC.
The actual got ya is that a "safety pilot" is technically an SIC and, as a
pilot he must hold medical. Of course CFIs log all their time as PIC when
they are instructing. Yeah - complicated!

Ivan