There is no loophole as far as an IGI is concerned with reference to
his signing off an IPC. As per the part 61 regs, he may give the
ground training required for an IPC, but there is no provision that
allows him to give an endorsement for the IPC itself. This has been
answered through the FAQ's before and has been gone over during every
examiner recurrent seminar I have attended. A CFII is given that
privilege, however if you look at the wording of privileges given to
ground instructors, only endorsements for knowledge tests and ground
training are allowed. They are not allowed to endorse for any recency
of experience issue. An IPC consists of both ground and flight
examination, as per the rating task table of the instrument PTS. A
person who has never been in an aircraft, even though he holds a
ground instructor certificate, can not give an IPC any more than he
can give a flight review. Just compare the privileges of a CFII vs. a
ground instructor, as per the Part 61 regs.


On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:22:25 GMT, "Richard Kaplan"
wrote:

"Michael" wrote in message
. com...

complex single. So my point is that the loophole would allow you to
teach and evaluate the multiengine portion of the ICC, and you
probably could not do that competently, but it's not required anyway.

OK, I agree there. Maybe this is actually helpful because if a twin-engine
pilot came to me to use my sim specifically so I could teach him how to use
a specific GPS or because he wanted to practice 0/0 landings then I could
put the sim in twin-engine mode to make him comfortable and still legally
log the instruction.

Now this is a dangerous loophole - all you need to do to be an IGI is
take two written multiple-guess tests. I would imagine this would be
well within the capability of most professionals with no flight
experience at all...

Yes, it is dangerous. I think in practice the way this is mostly used is to
allow rated pilots who are seeking the CFI rating to gain some experience
instructing in a flight training device. But the loophole does exist as you
note for someone who has never been inside an airplane in his life to sign
off an IPC.


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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