"The 20mins aero trip to none PPL holders is a bit suspect anyway because the training, which all trial flights are ment to be, isn't towards any known exercise in the PPL."
In the UK, this loophole was closed last year. Trial flights involving aerobatics for non-licence holding pilots shall not be conducted by anyone unless that person holds a FI Rating with the 'no aerobatics' restriction removed. Period.
It is crazy to suggest that someone could be a CRI conducting aerobatic training for years and years, then upgrade to FI only to find that, unless the 'no aerobatics' restriction was deleted, he/she could no longer teach aerobatics!!
There is an initiative to require that anyone teaching aerobatics, whether paid or not, must hold at least a CRI Rating and that he/she has also completed the same training and testing as is required for the removal of the 'no aerobatics' restriction pertaining to
FI Ratings. In other words, possess the skill sets relevant to CRI instructing
and the teaching of aerobatics. So, no need for CPL or CPL level knowledge if such instruction was given without remuneration. However, to teach/demonstrate aerobatics to non-licence holders, a FI Rating with the 'no aerobatics' restriction would still be needed.
The aims of this are:
1. To ensure that the 'trial flight aeros' brigade are appropriately regulated.
2. To ensure that all aerobatic instruction is given by those who have demonstrated the ability to instruct.
However, when the proposal was put to the CAA, some idiot just answered a different question.....
