"Michael" wrote in message
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(b) Aircraft ratings. A flight instructor may not conduct flight
training in any aircraft for which the flight instructor does not
hold1) A pilot certificate and flight instructor certificate with the
applicabl category and class rating; and

I agree that on first glance this would prohibit me from providing flight
instruction in a twin because both my pilot certificate and my instructor
certificate would need to contain both the Category Airplane and the Class
Single-Engine Land. Yet if this is true, then how can there exist flight
instructor certificates which only state "Instrument Airplane" because a
strict interpretation of the above would render such an instructor
certificate useless.

It would seem to me that by using the term "Instrument Airplane" on pilot
and instructor certificates the FAA has created a Class of airplane simply
called "Instrument."


For purposes of an instructor certificate, there are two classes
within the airplane category - ASE and AME. For purposes of a pilot

What happens in the case of a CFII without a CFI. In that case doesn't the
instructor certificate read solely "Instrument Airplane"? In that case,
what is the category and class?

You may be right, but this would be meaningless.

Meaningless but legal -- yes, I agree. Again, I am not proposing I or any
other single-engine CFI do this. It just seems to be a loophole in the
FARS, probably a dangerous loophole at that.

So the question would be - is the sim training ground or flight
training? If it's ground training, then an IGI would be an authorized
instructor and this would be legal. If it's flight training, then he
would not be authorized and it wouldn't be legal.

It is ground training but the ground training can serve as a legal IPC so it
does seem to be a loophole again as I understand it.




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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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