Flight Instructor Responsibilities

Question 1

TSA requirement for US and Foreign student before starting a training?

Answer 1

Determine if the student is US citizen

For foreign student: Submit background information to TSA for clearance

Question 2

Who need to complete the security awareness training?

Answer 2

CFI or ground instructor

Chief Instructor

Director of training

Anyone employed by flight school.

Question 3

When do have to complete the initial security awareness training?

Answer 3

Within 60 days

Question 4

How often the initial training needs to be accomplished?

Answer 4

Every 12 months

Question 5

Do you need to do TSA check for flight reviews, IPCS, or aircraft checkouts?

Answer 5

No. They are not training. They are just checks.

Question 6

As CFI, What records do you have to maintain for UC citizens?

Answer 6

One of the following:
A copy of documentation that proves citizenship.

Or make the endorsement to certify

Question 7

What kind of category ratings can be placed on a pilot certificate?

Answer 7

Airplane, Rotorcraft, Glider, Lighter than air, powered parachute

Question 8

What kind of class rating can be placed on a pilot certificate?

Answer 8

Airplane: Single engine land, Multi engine Land, Single engine sea, Single engine sea

Question 9

What kind of ratings can be placed on CFI certificate?

Answer 9

Airplane, Rotorcraft, Glider,

Single engine, multi engine

Helicopter

Question 10

Does student pilot certificate expire?

Answer 10

No if after April 1, 2016. Before 24 months or 60 months

Question 11

ATP pilot practical test, what medical do you need?

Answer 11

3rd

Question 12

What operations doesn’t require a medical certificate?

Answer 12

CFI when not acting as PIC

Ground instructor certificate

Serving as an EXAM

Question 13

Operations don’t need medical certificate

Answer 13

Flight instructor when not acting as a PIC

Ground Instructor

Serving as an examiner for glider, balloon, flight simulator or training device .

Question 14

What is basic med?

Answer 14

PIC without medical requirements under part 67.

meet certain prescribed conditions to operate under BasicMed.

Question 15

11. A pilot asks you what the requirements are to fly under new BasicMed regulations.

Answer 15

a. Hold a U.S. driver’s license.
b. Hold or have held a medical certificate issued by the FAA at any point after July 15, 2006.
c. Answer the health questions on the Comprehensive Medical Examination Checklist (CMEC).
d. Get a physical examination by any state-licensed physician, and have that physician complete the CMEC; keep the signed CMEC document.
e. Take an online medical education course and complete the attestations/consent to the National Driver Register (NDR) check. Keep the course completion document.

Question 16

Comprehensive Medical Examination Checklist (CMEC).

Answer 16

Checklist to complete in order to basic med.

Question 17

Explain the privileges and limitations of a pilot flying under BasicMed.

Answer 17

limited to:

a. Fly with no more than five passengers.
b. Fly an aircraft under 6,000 lbs maximum certificated takeoff weight.
c. Fly an aircraft that is authorized to carry no more than 6 occupants.
d. Flights within the United States, at an indicated airspeed of 250 knots or less, and at an altitude at or below 18,000 feet mean sea level (MSL).
e. May not fly for compensation or hire.

Question 18

When is a type rating required?

Answer 18

Large aircraft (except lighter-than-air)

Turbojet-powered airplanes;

Other aircraft (specified through aircraft type certificate procedures).

Question 19

According to regulations, what additional training is required to act as pilot-in-command of a complex airplane?

Answer 19

Received and logged ground and flight training

Received a one-time logbook endorsement

Question 20

What is high performance airplane mean?

Answer 20

Horsepower of 200

Question 21

According to regulations, what additional training is required to act as pilot-in-command of a high-performance airplane?

Answer 21

Received and logged ground and flight training

Received a one-time logbook endorsement

Question 22

Describe the minimum required elements of instruction for transition to a tailwheel aircraft.

Answer 22

received and logged flight training

logbook endorsement

normal and crosswind takeoffs and landings

wheel landings

go-around procedures.

Question 23

When entering time in a logbook, what time is considered as “training time”?

Answer 23

training from an authorized instructor

training time must be logged in a logbook include a description of the training given, the length of the training lesson, and the instructor’s signature, certificate number, and certificate expiration date.

Question 24

What logbook entries should be made by the flight instructor if a pilot demonstrates unsatisfactory performance during a flight review?

Answer 24

The FAA does not intend the flight review to be a checkride. If the review is not satisfactory, the CFI should log the flight as “dual instruction given” and not as a “failure.” The CFI should then recommend additional training in the areas of the review that were unsatisfactory.

Question 25

Before a flight review, what do you need to interview with applicant?

Answer 25

Type of equipment flown

Nature of flight operations

Amount and recency of flight experience

Question 26

For an applicant training under Part 61, what minimum aeronautical experience, is required before application for an instrument rating may take place?

Answer 26

50 hours of cross-country flight time as PIC, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane;

40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time in the Part 61 areas of operation, of which 15 hours must have been received from an authorized instructor

3 hours of instrument flight training 2 calendar months before the date of the practical test;

one cross-country flight in an airplane with an authorized instructor 250 NM along airways or direct routing from ATC, an instrument approach at each airport, and 3 different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems.

Question 27

Enroute VFR. Student is in solo flying. Clouds are building up to overcast. Is she allowed to continue above overcast? 61.89 and FAA-H-8083-25

Answer 27

(6) With a flight or surface visibility of less than 3 statute miles during daylight hours or 5 statute miles at night;
(7) When the flight cannot be made with visual reference to the surface; or

Question 28

Do you have to teach short field takeoffs and landings for first solo flying? 61.93

Answer 28

Yes Takeoff, approach, and landing procedures, including short-field, soft-field, and crosswind takeoffs, approaches, and landings;

Question 29

Reasons that examiners may discontinue a practical test? 61.43

Answer 29

(1) When the applicant fails one or more of the areas of operation; or
(2) Due to inclement weather conditions, aircraft airworthiness, or any other safety-of-flight concern.

Question 30

Do you need a flight review after renewing your CFI certificate? 61.56

Answer 30

No need

Question 31

Is medical certificate always required to exercise the privileges of a flight instructor certificate? If not, are there any limitations on flight instructors teaching without a medical certificate? Can an instructor teach under BasicMed? 61.23 and AC 68-1

Answer 31

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