Kenny KellerCreator Helicopter Online Ground School LLC

Certified Flight Instructor How To Renew Certificate

17 Dec 2016 · 2 min

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Sarah Greene walks through five ways to renew a CFI certificate under FAA rules. You can renew by passing 80% of your students' checkrides, completing a refresher course, holding a check airman role, passing a military proficiency check within 12 months, or using an FAA-approved simulator. If you let it lapse past 24 months, you take a full checkride.

Questions this video answers

24 calendar months

80% (four out of five students passing on first attempt)

A military flight instructor proficiency pilot check within the preceding 12 calendar months

Yes, if performed at an FAA-approved training center/school

You must take another practical test (checkride)

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Hi, I'm Sarah Greene with Helicopter Online Ground School and today we're talking about renewal requirements for your CFI. So I'm taking this right out of 61 197. So unlike the other certifications, this one does expire after 24 calendar months. But there are some things that you can do to renew it. One of those things is if you have four out of your five students pass their practical on the first attempt. So you need an 80% pass rate. And if you can improve that, the other thing you can do is you can take a CFI refresher course that consists of flight, ground or both. You can show record of being company check airman in a Part 121 or 135 operation, or if you're a chief instructor pilot in a 121135 operation, or if you just regularly check other pilots out. Another way is within the next preceding 12 calendar months, if you were in the US Armed Forces and you had a military flight instructor proficiency pilot check. That's a long word and it's good to know that the FAA does accept your practical to be done in a simulator or flight training device as long as the school is an FAA approved training center. And if all else fails and 24 months has lapsed, you will have to take another checkride. So you may as well just renew.