Expire date on tr and fi hours

[Jborg]

I have a question about expire time in the Easa world. If you do a flight towards a tr but something delayed you. What is the expire date to continue use that time?

If you have good answer, is that the same time for fi houra to?

[Whopity]

If you do a flight towards a tr but something delayed you. What is the expire date to continue use that time? A prof check can only be completed in the last 3 months of the rating validity, so it will expire on its expiry date. The prof check must be completed before it expires or it will become a renewal and a course completion certificate will also be required. A Skill Test for rating issue has to be completed within 6 months of starting the training.

is that the same time for fi houra to?Not sure what you mean but No. For FI you have to complete 2 out of 3 requirements in validity period, Hours in period of validity; Assessment of Competence; Seminar. If you expire then you have 12 months to do AoC and Seminar.

[BizJetJock]

FCL.725 (c) says that you must pass the skill test within six months of starting the training course for a type rating. Therefore anything over six months old doesn't count.

There is no equivalent paragraph for instructor ratings, so in theory there is no time limit. In practice anything over a year and you probably want to start again just from the point of actually remembering it all.

I hope that helps.

BJJ

[excrab]

BizjetJock and Whopity,

Not quite on the topic of the OP, but according to Whopity, if an instructor rating expires then you have 12 months to do A of C and seminar. That would appear to apply in my case.

However, in 1986 I did a 25 hour course for what was then called an AFI rating,
in 1987 a 10 hour course to teach applied IF before upgrading to what was then known as "QFI", and then in 1988 courses for Aerobatic and Multi instructor ratings.

As I now approach the end of my commercial flying career, due to age, I am looking at renewing my instructor ratings. Ignoring, for a moment, the sensibleness or not of having training before trying to renew my ratings, if Bizjetjock is right I should be able to present myself for an instructor test based on the training I did thirty years ago, so why would I also (legally) have to attend a seminar... or have I missed something?

[4Screwaircrew]

@excrab, my understanding is that to renew you need 2 from 3, an FI test, a seminar, or sufficient instructing in the appropriate amount of time, I’m looking to renew my long expired FI and believe this is the way to do it.

[Whopity]

For Renewal, there is only one option. Training as required to pass an Assessment of Competence (Formerly FI Test) and atted a FI Seminar within a 12 month window.

if an instructor rating expires then you have 12 months to do A of C and seminar. Not quite, you have any length of time to do it, but both actions must be completed within a 12 month window.