Looking for Advice..

Dudley Henriques wrote:
A CFI is technically a Certificated Flight
Instructor, but there are a virtual ton of CFI's who refer to
themselves on almost every occasion as CERTIFIED Flight Instructors.
I did it myself for many years, even signed log books this way. Never
had a problem with it until discovering Usenet :-)

While I suppose there may be some minor technical issues with log book
signing, I personally don't see any problems with CFIs using CFI to mean
"Certified Flight Instructor." It's not like the FAA has a trademark on the
acronym. Besides, here are several definitions of "certified,"
"certificated," and "certifiable" lifted straight from the web that show
how little difference there really is between them:

Certified:

Adj: "holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as
qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill"

Adj: "endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements"

Certificated:

Adj: "furnished with or authorized by a certificate"

Certifiable:

Adj: "fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)"

All seem equally applicable to CFIs!
;-)