No you need 20 hours of Flight Training with a FAA Authorized Instructor
No; it can be any instructor "authorised" to do the training - if
outside the USA.
This is an old chestnut, done to death.
Has the definition
for training done outside the USA, which the FAA does accept, changed, to specifically say the instructor must be an
FAA CFI/CFII?
I know that this has been raised in the past regarding what a foreign ICAO instructor can and cannot do as defined in 61.41.
Indeed it has been.
I do not know if this particular question has ever been challenged with FAA Legal Counsel as to clarifying the definition in 61.1 versus 61.41 and what is stated in 61.109 in regards to the mandatory 20 hours with an FAA Authorized Instructor.
Indeed. I haven't seen such a ruling. It would incidentally make a total mockery of the totally established acceptance by the FAA of foreign (ICAO) pilot training.
It would raise other intractable issues too e.g. you do a 300nm x/c flight under IFR, 3 different approaches, etc, with an instructor who is an FAA CFII and who is
also a JAA IRI. Person A can say the flight is towards a JAA IR. (There are loads of such dual-rated instructors - not least because you need a JAA CPL to get paid for any training in Euro airspace). Person B can equally say the flight is towards an FAA IR (and "thus needs" TSA approval). It's a complete bollox, a travesty of logic, of common sense, not to mention enforceability
I am hesitant to write more on this, because I've been the victim of some pretty extreme attacks from vested interests and their associates. But I am posting this because it would be a disservice to other pilots to leave it as-is. There is enough FUD sloshing around in this department already.