Episode 409: "What is the Best Way to Reinstate Helicopter CFI Expired License?"

This is coming from Ronald Gilson. He wants to know what is the best way to reinstate a helicopter CFI that is expired.

Aha. There's only one way, and this is a great question actually, because I have to get mine done for the end of the month. I have enough activity in the last two years, 24 months, that I can easily go to the FSDO and renew my CFI. However, I gotta go clear to Chicago and I don't know, I want to deal with it or not. So I'm debating here last minute, am I going to do a 16 hour online course or am I going to go to the FSDO and I have an answer for you. Twice in my 24 years of teaching, I have let my CFI lapse. The only way to reinstate your CFI is to go take a checkride. And the way I've done it, both times that I let it lapse, I had to schedule with our local examiner, the one I've been using for 24 years. You schedule the date with the examiner, you go over with the aircraft, you meet the examiner, and you have to sit down and do an oral test. And you have to go out and do a flight test. It's called a reinstatement checkride. There's no other way to do it. There's no way. There's no other way, you know, shortcut or, hey, call somebody or get a favor. You can't do it. And once it's expired, the only thing you can do is take a checkride. And I give you a little tip on that. The reinstatement checkride for me, the first one he did years ago, I thought was fairly easy. But the one he did for me four years ago, I'll be honest, transparency here, right? Like, I'm like, ah, you know, heck, we've been doing checkrides together for 20 years. It's going to be piece of cake. I'm just going to go in, answer a couple questions, go fly a maneuver or two. Ah, he'll sign me off. I'll tell you what, even though we're friends and been doing checkrides forever, I think my, my oral was about two hours, like way more than I expected. And then we went out, did a full one hour flight together for my reinstatement checkride. So for your reinstatement checkride, don't overlook going back and studying all the private pilot stuff, everything that we learned and then, you know, you have to teach as a private pilot, go back and review it. Brian Rutledge had put this together for us. He made this shortly after I went and did my CFI renewal. And once he made this and I went through it, I was like, holy cow, I wish I would have had this before I went to my CFI check or reinstatement because I would have went through this thing. Because Brian has found 400 phenomenal questions. Even though this is a private pilot study guide. It's what a private pilot's got to know. Right. And that's the stuff that we got to teach. So a little plug there for the study guide. We'll make sure after the videos below are done, we'll make sure we put that link down below. But refresh your knowledge before you go for that reinstatement check ride. Lindsey has her hand up.

I do. It's a question about what you're talking about with reinstatement. Is that kind of like your driver's license where every seven years it expires or is it every four, 24 months, every two years?

Yep. We have one license is my commercial pilot's license. So that license doesn't expire. I got to do flight reviews to keep that stay current with my certified flight instructor rating. That's another license with every 24 months. Before the 24 months is up, I, I have to either I can go to the physdo and show that I've had at least a minimum of four or five students have passed on their first attempt in the previous, previous 24 months. I can go online and do a 16 hour online course. There are places that put on instructor refresher courses like a 16 hour course over a weekend. You can go do that. If you are in a position where you regularly evaluate pilots like you're working. Example would be your 135 Czech airmen in an EMS operation and you continue you on a, on a continual basis, you go evaluate pilots, you can off that activity, you can go reinstate your cfi. So those are the main ways right off the top of my head, of how you can renew it. But you have to renew it before the end of that 24th month. If you miss it, you're out.

Jay just added in chat, he said new Rule as of December 1st this year we have pilots have an additional three months after expires.

Really? See, I knew he put out some stuff on the CFI stuff and I guess I should have watched Jay's video. Jay, are you serious? Are you telling me I got three more months? Is that what he just said? Yeah.

New rule as of 12-01-2024. You have an additional three months after expires.

Well, hell, I didn't know that. Jay, you need to keep checking in on these videos, man, so you can keep me abreast. I know you're the guy who is always on top of the latest, new, newest stuff that comes out and I appreciate you joining our our chat today. And let me tell you who Jay is. Jay is from. I'll plug his channel for him. Jay is from helicopter training videos. And over the years I've been on YouTube 14 years. Jay's been on there as long as me or longer approximately the same time. He's right around 50,000 subscribers. And for years I've known helicopter training videos and I know they're on YouTube. I've watched a lot of them. I always knew that, you know, he was a knowledgeable guy and made some good content. And this past summer he was in the area to visit some family and he called up or email us and said, hey, I want to swing by. We made it happen. And he came by and spent an afternoon with us here with me and Lindsey and we had great conversations talking about helicopter training and all kinds of stuff. Right. And so Jay, you know, fellow helicopter video maker in the chat. So go. You can go. If you haven't checked out Jay's videos, you should helicopter training videos on YouTube.

He's very worth the watch.

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