CFII Before CFI

On Aug 18, 6:32 am, Bob Moore wrote:
Robert M. Gary wrote

If you know that you want to end up with both the CFII and the CFI
(ASEL for instance) then getting the CFII first is probably not a bad
idea because instead of one really hard checkride (the initial CFI)
and then a really easy checkride (the CFII add-on), you have to medium
hard checkrides (CFII initial (including all the FOI), then just the
CFI(ASEL for instance) add on. However, if you get the CFII and quite
w/o getting the CFI-ASEL/AMEL/etc then you have an almost worthless
rating.

It is indeed one of the problems in aviation today that we have
Flight Instructors who do not read and understand the regulations.
We are NOT CFIs nor CFIIs....The FAR defines our certificates as
FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR. In fact, the remainder of the FARs refer to the
requirement for an AUTHORIZED INSTRUCTOR.


Oh, Bob I don't believe you are that dense. You know what the term
CFII means, trying to be a wanna-be lawyer doesn't do anyone any good.
Everyone else understood what I meant because I used normal
terminology. If you dreem of arguing cases before the NTSB you can
keep that to yourself, it doesn't help anyone here understand anything
better.


An obvious error in the quoted text above besides the use of CFI,
is the list of ratings that a Flight Instructor may have on his
Certificate.

An obvious error to the above statement is that no one ever quoted any
list of ratings that a Flight Instructor may have on his Certificate.

BTW: If you send me a private email I can explain to you what the term
"BFR" means when hard at the airport. You'll find that an
understanding of common terminology will help you if you ever encouter
another pilot and need to talk of things aviation.

-Robert, CFII (teaches in LAND AND SEA)