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Old 18th Mar 2014, 23:44
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What I find rather difficult to understand is why one can hold a flight instructors rating but are limited to flying only nose wheel airplanes.
In that case, why limit the requirements to taildraggers? How can one hold a flight instructors rating being limited to single-engine airplanes? To powered airplanes? Without an unlimited aerobatics rating? Without having gone solo in a helicopter? Without having made a carrier landing?

Maybe because one can be a perfectly competent instructor for most settings without these experiences/endorsements, too? And if after my PPL SEP I want to learn taildragger, I get a taildragger instructor. If I want to learn gliding, I get a gliding instructor. If I want to learn ME, I get a ME instructor. If I want to learn aerobatics, I get an aerobatics instructor. If I want to learn flying helicopters, I get a helicopter instructor. Not so sure about the carrier landing though, but since I'd probably gonna be broke long before, that's just as well .
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