Welcome Guest. Sign in or Signup

3 Answers

Renewing an expired flight instructor certificate

Asked by: 2582 views Flight Instructor

I have an expired flight instructor certificate. Am I reading 61.199 (a) correctly in that all I have to do is the practical test again? No ground work? No hours of questioning? No stress? ...well, much less stress, anyhow.

Ace Any FAA Written Test!
Actual FAA Questions / Free Lifetime Updates
The best explanations in the business
Fast, efficient study.
Pass Your Checkride With Confidence!
FAA Practical Test prep that reflects actual checkrides.
Any checkride: Airplane, Helicopter, Glider, etc.
Written and maintained by actual pilot examiners and master CFIs.
The World's Most Trusted eLogbook
Be Organized, Current, Professional, and Safe.
Highly customizable - for student pilots through pros.
Free Transition Service for users of other eLogs.
Our sincere thanks to pilots such as yourself who support AskACFI while helping themselves by using the awesome PC, Mac, iPhone/iPad, and Android aviation apps of our sponsors.

3 Answers



  1. Kris Kortokrax on Aug 05, 2017

    You are correct, in that reinstatement is done through a practical test.

    The PTS contains a table that outlines which areas of operation need to be accomplished.
    While the FOI area is not listed, would think that any competent DPE or ASI would evaluate FOI during your presentation of a maneuver lesson.

    Also, the practical tests are moving away from asking rote questions toward scenarios.

    +1 Votes Thumb up 1 Votes Thumb down 0 Votes



  2. KDS on Aug 05, 2017

    What Kris wrote is correct. I would just add the rules for DPE’s is that they HAVE to check the required items, but they MAY checks any task within the PTS even if it’s not required. The FOI on a CFI reinstatement is a good example of that.

    Also, if you hold ratings in multiple areas, you only need do one of the applicable PTS checks. The easy example is if you hold a CFI for ASE and Instrument-Airplane, you can choose to do either of those two PTS tests.

    0 Votes Thumb up 0 Votes Thumb down 0 Votes



  3. Ken White on Aug 06, 2017

    Mark, your question reads to me like you are interpreting the “practical test” as jumping in the airplane and going flying. As Kris said the PTS lays out the required tasks for the reinstatement practical, which does include “ground work and hours of questioning” as you put it. Thinking back to my initial CFI, the FOI stuff was only a small portion of my oral. The tasks listed in the reinstatement table accounted for a much larger portion of that oral.

    +1 Votes Thumb up 1 Votes Thumb down 0 Votes


The following terms have been auto-detected the question above and any answers or discussion provided. Click on a term to see its definition from the Dauntless Aviation JargonBuster Glossary.

Answer Question

Our sincere thanks to all who contribute constructively to this forum in answering flight training questions. If you are a flight instructor or represent a flight school / FBO offering flight instruction, you are welcome to include links to your site and related contact information as it pertains to offering local flight instruction in a specific geographic area. Additionally, direct links to FAA and related official government sources of information are welcome. However we thank you for your understanding that links to other sites or text that may be construed as explicit or implicit advertising of other business, sites, or goods/services are not permitted even if such links nominally are relevant to the question asked.