Mr.Meerkat
16th Jan 2024, 20:11
After working as a part-time instructor for 2 years and just under 400 hrs of dual given, I finally will be unrestricting my UK FI cert. Those 25 solo authorisations were surprisingly hard to obtain as sadly I couldn't "borrow" other instructors' students whilst also ending up with 5 under-16s students in the first year...on the bright side, seems like my first first-solo release will be one of them as they turn 16!
Anway, waffling aside, I now have an interesting situation. My UK FI will be unrestricted however, unfortunately, IAA will not let me use any of the 400~ hours or solo authorisations to unrestrict my EASA FI as it wasn't completed at an EASA ATO with an EASA FI supervising, training EASA medical holders (red-tape a little strong on this). Annoyingly, before I SOLI-ed my EASA licence to IAA (due to finding a M.78 tin can job), my previous authority allowed me to conduct SEP revalidation training flights unsupervised and would have been happy to let me unrestrict my EASA FI on the basis of UK experience.
Somewhat recently, there have been a few times when a dual-licenced pilot has asked me if I could FCL.945 their UK SEP and endorse for EASA reval training flight however, I rejected as I wasn't sure what IAA's stance was in terms of whether I needed to be supervised by an EASA FI or not. I am also hoping to add "(h)"/IR privileges to both FI certs soon but my understanding is authorities do not like IR privileges on restricted FI certs.
I have sent an email to IAA back in early December asking:
1. Can I conduct SEP reval training flights unsupervised?
2. Can I extend my restricted FI to include IR instructing?
Unfortunately, 7 weeks later, I still don't have a response (and have tried calling, to be told "they will get back to me").
I do not suppose anyone here has any ideas about the two questions above, in particular to the IAA? Also, I don't suppose anyone here have any suggestions on how I might be able to unrestrict my IAA FI, solving these issues?
TIA!
Anway, waffling aside, I now have an interesting situation. My UK FI will be unrestricted however, unfortunately, IAA will not let me use any of the 400~ hours or solo authorisations to unrestrict my EASA FI as it wasn't completed at an EASA ATO with an EASA FI supervising, training EASA medical holders (red-tape a little strong on this). Annoyingly, before I SOLI-ed my EASA licence to IAA (due to finding a M.78 tin can job), my previous authority allowed me to conduct SEP revalidation training flights unsupervised and would have been happy to let me unrestrict my EASA FI on the basis of UK experience.
Somewhat recently, there have been a few times when a dual-licenced pilot has asked me if I could FCL.945 their UK SEP and endorse for EASA reval training flight however, I rejected as I wasn't sure what IAA's stance was in terms of whether I needed to be supervised by an EASA FI or not. I am also hoping to add "(h)"/IR privileges to both FI certs soon but my understanding is authorities do not like IR privileges on restricted FI certs.
I have sent an email to IAA back in early December asking:
1. Can I conduct SEP reval training flights unsupervised?
2. Can I extend my restricted FI to include IR instructing?
Unfortunately, 7 weeks later, I still don't have a response (and have tried calling, to be told "they will get back to me").
I do not suppose anyone here has any ideas about the two questions above, in particular to the IAA? Also, I don't suppose anyone here have any suggestions on how I might be able to unrestrict my IAA FI, solving these issues?
TIA!