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VFR-Seek and Destroy
Hi,
I’m unable to find the answer on the EASA website ( even with the help of google ) the requirements needed to be accepted onto a course that would give an instructor the privilege to teach for the MEP(L) class rating or the SPA MEIR rating.
Looking for a career change and believe instructors with these privileges are in demand at the moment.
These privileges would be added to my FI rating ( although it’s rarely used at present ).
I believe a pre-requisite to be eligible to attend a course to learn to teach for the MEP(L) class rating is 30 hrs PIC on MEP(L) and for the MEIR is 200 hrs IFR. ( Would the hrs from MEP(L) class rating tests successfully passed count towards the 30hrs PIC needed? Do the 200 IFR hours needed as a prerequisite need to be on a MEP(L) or could IFR hrs on a SEP(L) count towards the total. Unfortunately I never logged IFR hrs, only simulated / actual instrument time and have no accurate way of precisely saying when the flights were operated under IFR 😕 ).
Is there any other pre-requisites that I’m missing?
And finally, as most students training for these ratings are aiming for a “frozen ATPL” and are on either a modular or an integrated course would an instructor need a minimum of 200 hrs instruction given to be able to instruct these students? ( I am aware that these are ratings and could be attached to either a PPL or a CPL and the 200 hrs instruction given applies when instructing students for CPL licence issue but don’t these students just do a CPL LST and these ratings are issued at the same time of licence issued.
Thx,
VFR
As I understand it there are two separate courses: CRI (MEP) and IRI. You need 30hrs PIC MEP for the CRI course, and 200 hours IFR in any class/type for the IRI course (800 for someone who's not already an FI). It is possible to do either of these courses without being an FI but could only teach people who hold PPLs.
Those two courses should allow you to teach the MEP Class rating and the IR on modular courses. Holding a CPL will allow you to teach CPL, and holding an FI certificate will allow you to teach integrated students as well (since they don't hold any kind of licence until the very end, you need to be able to teach them PPL, CPL, CR and IR all at once).