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CFI reinstatement checkride

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Hello,

I have not flown in several years and need to complete a BFR and IPC.  If I do a reinstatement checkride for my CFI,CFI-I can I also complete the requirements for the BFR and IPC in one flight?  I know the commercial and the CFI are separate certificates.  I called the local FSDO but they are closed because of the gov. shutdown.

thanks 

 

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  1. KDS on Jan 12, 2019

    You can if the examiner agrees to do that.

    To reinstate your CFI, you only need to meet the standards of one of the ratings on your flight instructor certificate. The logical choice would be to reinstate under Flight Instructor – Instrument Airplane. That would allow the examiner to observe your instrument skills and apply those towards the IPC. The flight review would be accomplished just by successfully completing the check. That is covered in 14 CFR 61.56(d)(1).

    Look at page A-12 in the Instrument Rating ACS (FAA-S-ACS-8B) for the list of tasks you need to demonstrate to the examiner for an IPC. Then look at page 20 in the Flight Instructor Instrument PTS (FAA-S-8081-9D) for the list of tasks you need to demonstrate to reinstate your CFI-I (which will reinstate your whole CFI).

    Just knowing how people like to operate, if it were me, I’d sit down ahead of time and list out the tasks from those two tables and come up with a plan of action for the check that shows how all of the tasks could be accomplished and offer it to the examiner in advance. In fact, I’d do that at the point where I contacted the examiner to arrange for the test.

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  2. Russ Roslewski on Jan 12, 2019

    While KDS is correct, there is an additional wrinkle.

    For the CFII ride (like any CFI checkride), the applicant is not expected to fly all the maneuvers. Rather, on some of them the examiner will fly while the applicant “instructs”. This is clearly spelled out in the PTS:

    “During the flight portion of the practical test, the examiner shall act as a
    student during selected maneuvers. This will give the examiner an
    opportunity to evaluate the flight instructor applicant’s ability to analyze
    and correct simulated common errors related to these maneuvers.”

    This is a problem for counting it as an IPC, since of course an IPC requires you to be the pilot flying the approaches.

    You could accomplish this by doing more than the minimum number of maneuvers for the checkride, I suppose, or by “ending” the checkride while still in the air and then doing the remaining IPC maneuvers. But definitely will need to be coordinated with the DPE well ahead of time.

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