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Fundamentals of Instruction exemption

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How do you get the exemption to taking the fundimentals of instruction test? I have been a ROTC Instructor. 

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  1. MaggotCFII on Mar 27, 2011

    Your answer is in  FAR Part 61, Subpart H, Flight Instructors Other than Flight Instructors with a Sport Pilot Rating – 61.183 Eligibility Requirements and 61.185 Aeronautical Knowledge.

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  2. Steve Dortch on Mar 28, 2011

    The question is not can I do it. The question is how? To whom do I show my teaching credentials?

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  3. MaggotCFII on Mar 28, 2011

    Give your FSDO a call and ask to speak with the FAASteam Program Manager.
    Ask that person your question.
    I have found the FAASTeam crew responds a lot quicker then other at our FSDO. 
     
    Another source would be FAA 8900.1 – Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS).  This one explains step by step what is needed to be reviewed, done, etc. by the Inspector when issuing certificates and ratings.  Link follows:
     
    http://fsims.faa.gov/PICResults.aspx?mode=EBookContents
     
    You could also contact your local DPE(s), always found them most helpful or AOPA.
    I suggest the FSDO because you may want an “official” quotable source should the need arise.
    If you are working with a CFI – ask him to call!
    Please let us know how you do!
     
     
     
     

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  4. MaggotCFII on Mar 28, 2011

    Forgot this – if you are looking toward Ground Instructor not Flight Instructor then FAR 61-213 would apply.

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  5. Matthew Waugh on Apr 02, 2011

    Call the FSDO is a good answer – but let me assume for a moment.
     
    For the FOI you take a test and get issued a certificate that you have taken and passed the test. You want to use a different certification of your ability to teach. So I assume in any place where you need to present your FOI test certification you would just present your teaching certification.
    So that’s an initial CFI, or an initial AGI, IGI (or BGI I guess, who gets the BGI?).
     
    For a practical perspective I imagine the world is full of different kinds of teaching certifications affiliated with all kinds of organisations. So if I was going to present myself with an alternative to the FOI, I would check ahead of time that the person who would need to accept it would accept it. Saturday morning, at the start of a CFI initial is not time to be producing your teaching certificate from the University of Dubai.
     
    My guess is that the FSDO will happily give you a verbal opinion, but I could never get them to commit to anything in writing, and that’s worth not very much. So again, a specific, before hand check, with the person you want to accept your teaching certificate would be wise.

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  6. Mario Gerhardt on Apr 16, 2011

    I am trying to get my CFIG. I asked the local examiner regarding the exemption and he said just to bring a copy of my teaching certificate and a note from my school system certifying that I was a teacher there. I am a high school teacher and coach.

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  7. LTCTerry on Jul 25, 2011

    I took the BGI written. Then I took a copy of my teaching certificate and the written test results to the local FSDO and became a BGI.
    I’m interested in CFIG as an initial CFI to be eventually followed by CFI/II one day. 
     

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