Thu May 16, 2019 10:23 pm
#1694057
GAWARE wrote:This post is very out of date FIs are in big demand...
Because there's a shortage of them?
GAWARE wrote:This post is very out of date FIs are in big demand...
Balliol wrote: However (trying not to be negative honest!) there could be merit in modularising the FI course and linking it to exercise privileges. The RAF have done this with University Air Squadron FIs - first qualification can teach up to first solo, second level can teach full syllabus
It could go along lines of:
Teaching and Learning module - perhaps more available via groundschool providers
Module 1 - 10 hours of flying training - allows up to first solo FI
Module 2 - 15 hours of flying training - allows full syllabus
Mutual Module 5 hours - practice exercise teaching with a senior nominated FI or FE, doesn’t have to be in FI course, must be signed off prior to module 2 completion
@bookworm happy to discuss idea above more if you want
The RAF have done this with University Air Squadron FIs - first qualification can teach up to first solo, second level can teach full syllabus.
nickwilcock wrote:As bookworm knows, EASA is currently looking at a 'CPL light' with reduced theoretical knowledge requirements. The same theoretical knowledge requirements will also apply to PPL/FIs, but they won't need to hold a CPL.
ThePipster wrote:It has been quite a few years since I received flight instruction in a glider but the BGA seemed to turn out very good and knowledgable instructors who understood how a glider flew and how to get students to fly them without CPL TK.
Perhaps that model could be a starting point for the brave new regulations?
Pipster
Kemble Pitts wrote:In response to the OP, I was (am still) a CRI and was enjoying doing biennials, tail-wheel differences, aerobatics ratings and the like. But then I wanted to do the 'trips around the bay' in Stampes and Tiger Moths and that required me to be an FI(A) - 'cos they are, in regulatory terms, Exercise 3 of the PPL/LAPL (air experience), given under an ATO, and so the pilot needs to be an FI(A) - QED.
TLRippon wrote:One thing that does concern me is the willing non FI PPL doing the air experience flights. It’s great for the clubs to have unpaid staff and it probably keeps the consumer price down. It probably isn’t an issue when there is plenty of work around and a limited supply of FI’s but this current shortage is part of a cycle, it wasn’t so long ago there was a glut of ATPL FI’s working in every club waiting for the airline job. In the past couple of years they have moved on causing the FI shortage. It must be rather annoying for an FI, having made the CPL TK investment, to see unpaid staff flying customers who have paid a fee to the club.
GrahamB wrote:But if just one of those 30 minute introductory flights for which an FI gets nothing brings someone who goes on to do upwards of 45 hours as a PPL student, isn’t that a good thing for the FI?
TLRippon wrote:GrahamB wrote:But if just one of those 30 minute introductory flights for which an FI gets nothing brings someone who goes on to do upwards of 45 hours as a PPL student, isn’t that a good thing for the FI?
Wouldn’t that then more likely be a trial lesson?
If I were marketing my services, I would want the customer to get the best possible example of what is in offer?