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CFI-Sport adding instruction in lsa seaplane (holds Private Pilot ASEL/ASES)

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I know that typically a Sport Pilot instructor that become a CFI-Sport has to get a checkride from another CFI and endorsement to add seaplane instruction privleges.

What about the scenario where a Private Pilot that has land/sea/glider become a CFI-S and takes the checkride in a land only aircraft? Do they still need the additional checkride from a CFI or CFI-S and logbook endorsement to be authorized  to teach in a light sport seaplane? I'm thinking yes the additional checkride and endorsement would be needed to teach in seaplane but a local CFI talked to thinks the existing Private Pilot Seaplane rating would eliminate the need for an additional checkride/logbook endorsement for seaplane, but would not eliminate the need for an additional checkride and endorsement for teaching gliders.

I think a checkride and endorsement would be needed for both teaching in a LSA seaplane and an additional one for teaching in a light sport glider.

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  1. LTCTerry on Jul 15, 2020

    You have private/sport pilot privileges for ASES and CFIS privileges for ASEL. You need instructor privileges…

    61.401 does not specify the number of hours required with the “first instructor” but you must indeed log ground and flight instruction to prepare you to *instruct* ASES as a CFIS. If you are a proficient ASES private pilot and a proficient CFIS, the differences between instructing ASEL and ASES might only take a couple hours to demonstrate proficiency to the “first instructor” so you could then do a proficiency check (not checkride) with the “second instructor.”

    The same would apply to adding gliders to a CFIS certificate. The difficulty there is that there are very few gliders that are legal LSAs. You might want to consider getting the glider commercial pilot rating and then traditional CFI. This would let you instruct in a variety of gliders such as ASK-21 and G103 instead of being limited to pretty much just the SGS 2-33. (Permitted airspeeds are too high on most gliders to allow them to be LSA.)

    Hope this helps.

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