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Flight Review requirements for CFI applicant

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Scenario - A man has been away from country for 5 years, he holds commercial ASEL, AMEL with IR and ultimately came back and began flying for CFI.

We know that he cannot act as PIC of aircraft until he completes Flight Review with authorized instructor and have logbook endorsed to act as PIC again.

Another mehtod is that CFI checkride can reset his Flight Review clock which means (what I understood ?) he cannot officially log PIC time until he passes his checkride?

so, point being, does he need to have Flight review at the beginning of his CFI course to log PIC all the way till the end of training towards checkride ?

Steve.

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  1. Mark Kolber on Mar 10, 2016

    Steve, you need to take some time to review current FAA material and bring yourself back up to speed on rules and procedures, whether you are the applicant or the CFI in your scenario. The questions you are asking are very basic and without a good foundation, handling the far more difficult knowledge areas coming along will be next to impossible.

    The rules of logging pic time under 61.51 do not require that one be acting as PIC. A pilot who is rated for the aircraft -as in having an ASEL rating when flying a single engine land airplane – is authorized to log PIC time whenever the sole manipulator of the controls. Currency, medical certificates, etc simply don’t matter.

    It’s not particularly intuitive but the regs and more than 30 years of FAA policy and official interpretation separate “acting as” PIC and “logging” PIC time into completely separate and for the most part unrelated concepts.

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