A few Q's that have been on my mind lately.

If you are looking for a mountain checkout or mountain flying help I
wouldn't necessarily look for an instructor. Look for the people who
fly in the mountains in the kinds of airplanes you want to fly. Most of
the time these people are not CFI's, although there are some very good
mountain flying CFI's.





He wouldn't even need a CFI certificate to do this, as "mountain
checkout" is not a signoff mentioned in the FARs as needing to be done
by a CFI.

Newps writes:
If you are looking for a mountain checkout or mountain flying help I
wouldn't necessarily look for an instructor. Look for the people who
fly in the mountains in the kinds of airplanes you want to fly. Most
of the time these people are not CFI's, although there are some very
good mountain flying CFI's.

Thanks for the tip! I actually have quite an excellent instructor (I
have worked with him a fair bit before) who teaches primarily in the
Citabria (my fun plane of choice) and does lots of mountain
instruction around here (SF Bay Area). Also, I have to get
instruction from one of my club's instructors if I am going to get a
signoff from the club to land anywhere in the mountains.

The main reason I want this instruction is to fly to some of the
airports in the Sierras which are not renowned for their difficulty
level, but are high enough to require a signoff (according to my
club's rules). These include South Lake Tahoe, Mariposa Yosemite, and
Truckee-Tahoe. I would certainly seek much more extensive instruction
before trying to fly into smaller or backcountry landing strips.

Chris

Peter Clark wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:18:36 -0600, "Maxwell"
wrote:

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...
Of course, in the event of simulated IMC (hood work) the safety pilot
(usually the CFI) is a required crew member.
Granted a safety pilot is often a CFI, but do the FARs even require this
persons to be certificated?

91.109(b)(1).


I think the point was that BFR's often involve at least some brief
amount of hood work, in which case the instructor doing the BFR would
need to also be the safety pilot.

I think the point was that BFR's often involve at least some brief
amount of hood work, in which case the instructor doing the BFR would
need to also be the safety pilot.

.... not if there were a third person who could (and did) act as safety pilot during that time.

Jose
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On 2007-12-09 14:39:14 -0800, Bush said:

I was actually navigating around FAA.gov last night in order to get
answers to questions of my own however on my CFI certificate in reads
"not valid without certificate no. xxxxxxxx", which is my ATP. To
excericse at least the commercial privelages one would need to
maintain at least a class II medical. Am I reading this correctly?

No. The FARs provide a specific exception for flight instructors. You
only need a third class medical and only then if you are acting as PIC
or are a required crewmember. You do not lose your commercial
certificate if you lose your medical. That is why they are separate
pieces of paper.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On 2007-12-08 18:23:04 -0800, "Allen" said:


"buttman" wrote in message
...
1) I've always been under the impression that a commercial certificate
is required to get the instructor certificate, but once you have it,
the commercial license is not needed anymore. This explains why you
can still get paid to instruct and sign students off without a valid
medical certificate.

So if you were to forfeit your commercial pilots license, of if the
FAA were to revoke it, you could still sign endorsements and do flight
reviews. Is this correct? If so, whats the point of the words "Must be
accompanied by pilot certificate #XXXXXXX" on the back of the
instructor certificate?

I would take that to mean that your flight instructor certificate is no
longer valid if you forfeit your commercial

Without a current medical certificate (at least third-class) you can't
instruct a pilot that does not have a current medical certificate, current
biennial and at least a private certificate (I am not up on the sport guys
so I may be wrong on the last). If you are a multi-engine instructor you
can not instruct unless the student already has the multi and is current.

Tough to do instrument training as well, since you must act as safety
pilot while giving instrument instruction. You are basically limited to
flight reviews and those portions of other ratings where you are not a
required crew member.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:
You do not lose your commercial
certificate if you lose your medical.

You also don't even need a second to get a commercial anymore.
Anybody with a third can get any pilot certificate or rating.

Ron Natalie wrote:
C J Campbell wrote:
You do not lose your commercial certificate if you lose your medical.

You also don't even need a second to get a commercial anymore.
Anybody with a third can get any pilot certificate or rating.

When did they change that?

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:16:10 -0600, Gig601XLBuilder
wrote:

Ron Natalie wrote:
C J Campbell wrote:
You do not lose your commercial certificate if you lose your medical.

You also don't even need a second to get a commercial anymore.
Anybody with a third can get any pilot certificate or rating.

When did they change that?

Not sure but I recall it for a bit. Basically they let you take the
ride for the certificate, but you can't exercise any of the privs
without the appropriate medical.