The FAA criteria for a CFI-G in the US are apparently
based on old criteria from the 1920s and 1930s with
some updating in the pursuit of safety.

In my view, it would be useful if the SSA devised two
or three levels of SSA Instructor recognition similar
to the BGA standards. I don't believe I would base
this on badges; we have many pilots who fly cross country
but don't bother with SSA badges. Further, in the
proper location, one can earn all the diamonds without
having made a dozen X/C flights, and further still,
one could have earned the badges decades ago and not
have done any X/C flying since that time. I believe
some combination of total hours of X/C, the number
of X/C flights, total distance flown, and recency of
this experience would provide a better indicator of
qualifications.

We already have SSA Instructor, and SSA Master Instructor;
why not elaborate that a bit and give it more publicity
and status?

At 20:12 26 April 2007, Andy wrote:
On Apr 25, 7:10 am, 126Driver wrote:
Would a USA instructor easily qualify as a BGA
instructor. Or would they need additional training.

My experience of this is over 20 years ago. I returned
to UK after
earning my US CFI, Gold, and 2 diamonds and with 150
hours in my log
book was quickly granted a UK assistant instructor
rating. I probably
was not given a full briefing on the restrictions as
the CFI ( the C
is Chief for the US folks)had a little word with me
after I soloed a
student without talking to him first.

I did some training at Lasham for full cat and would
have received it
except that I got tired watching the rain while I waited
in the hope
of flying and returned to US.

Andy