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Is Dyslexia or spelling be an issue for FAA?

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Hello

I am thinking of becoming a CFI, already passed the written exams. However, I have dyslexia and cannot spell well.

  1. Will spelling be an issue in the FAA checkride?
  2. Or will dyslexia in itself be an issue for FAA?

I have a technical Masters Degree from a top US University. FYI, Dyslexia has nothing to do with IQ.

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  1. KDS on May 20, 2021

    I tend to like Mark Twain’s statement that he had no use for a man whose imagination was so limited that he could only think of one way to spell a word.

    I will not say it is not possible that it could be a problem because there is always an exception to the rule, but I cannot imagine spelling being an issue in a practical test. If things were graded on spelling, there would be a whole lot of people at the FAA who would be out of a job. My personal favorite is after publishing the Glider Flying Handbook, they figured out that a “wench launch” is not the same as a “winch launch”. Then there was the time I did a computerized scan of all FAA issued publications and found out that 20% of the time they wrote “Principle Operations Inspector” instead of “Principal Operations Inspector”. Beyond that, the misspellings and typos are everywhere.

    I can see where symptoms of dyslexia could interfere in safe aircraft operation, but if you have done well enough to become a pilot, it should not be a barrier to becoming a flight instructor. I could only find one reference to dyslexia in FAA publications, and it was inconsequential.

    If you love aviation and want to share that love with others, by all means, become a flight instructor.

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