Thanks ersa,
Please email me at CFICYWG at Gmail
It appears I first need to have a Valid Class One Aeroplane Instructor rating.
2004 CAAO 40.7 No. 48 indicates that an Applicant who has or has held a Class 1 Aeroplane Flight Instructor Rating
(1) can have a 20 hour reduction in the Instructor Flight Training Required with 15 hours duel
with a Class 1 flight instructor and 5 hours may be with a Class 2 or with another trainee instructor.
(2) An applicant with a Valid Foreign Flight Instructor Rating Helicopter which required a 40 hour course of training
that is the equivlent of Australian syllibus
AND
does 10 hours with a Class 1 Flight Instructor under an AOC to do flight instructor training,
can be exempt from the 40 hour Flight Instructor training requirement.
So, can CASA combine the credits? That is, a 20 hour reduction because of an Aeroplane Instructor rating
and another credit for the hours of "Foreign Flight Instructor Training" that resulted in the issue of a foreign flight instructor rating.
The document gets specific at 8.6
"If the Applicant for a flight instructor (helicopter) rating grade 2 who holds or has held an overseas instructor authorization
has received not les than 40 hours of flight instructor training in helicopters "
and
"not less than 10 hours DUEL FLIGHT INSTRUCTION from a flight instructor at a flying school
which has the approval to conduct flight instructor training endorsed on its AOC.
" He or She is EXEMPT from compliance with subparagraph 4.2(c) "
Similary if CASA is "not satisfied" it "must refuse to grant an exemption"
From a Canadian perspective, Canada does NOT extend the same consideration
to Australian instructors, all foreign instructors have a simple requirement to do
15 hours duel and 10 hours ground. For the initial instructor rating to allow unsupervised
or freelance ability, they have to have 750 hours abinitio instructing experience.
The Australian and Canadian requiremets are very similar and it begs a bilateral agreement.
From the USA perspective, its up to the recommending instructor for the flight test
I just can't see Australia doing a bi-lateral with the USA on flight instructor ratings.
and there is a lot of new very different ground work that needs be covered first.