helimad,
Now days FI is a rating in your CPL not a license as it used to be. Older instructors might be able to clarify more.
err no thats not right the FI was never a licence it was always a rating, under the national system up to 2000, you could get an instructor rating added to a PPL and earn money, if you had 200 hours P1 and did the instructor course.
since JAR this route is no longer available, but existing holders keep it and the right to be paid as grandfather rights.
whirlygig,
And it looks like it might stay that way. The only upcoming change is dropping the requirement to pass CPL theory exams.
out of interest can you give me a link to that information written down somewhere
regards
CF