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CFI-Glider to CFI-A?

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If I have my CFI-Glider rating, as well as my ASEL Commercial w/Instrument rating....what do I need to do to get my CFI-A? In other words, does the CFI-G afford me any benefit when pursuing my CFI-A?

Bonus question: what about CFI-I?

Thanks!

P.S. I have searched the internet far and wide and can only ever find data on CFI to CFI-G....not the other way around. Your 

 

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  1. vaflyer on May 10, 2019

    Go to faa.gov, and the PTS (CFI is still a PTS for now) for airplane and look at the table on page 21. Come on now, you are a CFI, this isn’t hard.

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  2. flyboy47 on May 13, 2019

    vaflyer,

    I am not actually a CFI-G (yet). So my question was based on a conditional….

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  3. LTCTerry on May 17, 2019

    PTS/ACS have charts for every combination of initial issue and from “X to Y” for add-on ratings.

    People stress about the fact the FAA wants to do most initial instructor checkrides. They typically don’t do the CFI glider initials. Once you are a CFI you can use a DPE for the Airplane add-on.

    Tax tidbit – once you are a CFI, additional instructor training becomes tax deductible (assuming income limits/thresholds/etc). Ditto for commercial.

    Funny story – I recently spoke to an instructor about what I want to do, which is go from CFI (glider) to ME Commercial and ME Instructor w/o SE* first. He laughed and told me when he was a student at Middle Georgia College’s aviation program one of his instructors told them “One day a glider instructor is going to want to become a ME instructor, and you’ll have to know ahow to make that happen.” And one day I walked in the door!

    *I am ASEL and AMEL private w/ IFR.

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