Restricted FI(A) versus CRI
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What do you intend to do with the CRI rating that you will not be able to do with the FI(R) at a reputable RTF/FTO?
It is not simply the paying for a second rating. It is the setting up of your own RTF, the insurance and other costs and the fact that if you are doing some training in competition with the organisation you are hoping to fly with to have the FI rating unrestricted you are not going to have the best relationship - note that you have to tell them what other flying you are doing for FTL purposes!!!
Add to all that the fact that any CRI flying you do will not count towards the experience required to unrestrict the FI rating and I think that you may be complicating this unnecessarily.
I have to ask - Why are you in such a rush to set up your own training organisation when that will be limited to training pilots who already hold a licence? How many "hour with an instructor" flights are you planning to do independent of the RTF/FTO where you will work as an FI?
You must have a good reason - teaching aeros? teaching tailwheel differences?
It is not simply the paying for a second rating. It is the setting up of your own RTF, the insurance and other costs and the fact that if you are doing some training in competition with the organisation you are hoping to fly with to have the FI rating unrestricted you are not going to have the best relationship - note that you have to tell them what other flying you are doing for FTL purposes!!!
Add to all that the fact that any CRI flying you do will not count towards the experience required to unrestrict the FI rating and I think that you may be complicating this unnecessarily.
I have to ask - Why are you in such a rush to set up your own training organisation when that will be limited to training pilots who already hold a licence? How many "hour with an instructor" flights are you planning to do independent of the RTF/FTO where you will work as an FI?
You must have a good reason - teaching aeros? teaching tailwheel differences?
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CRI with FI(R)
I doubt if you could get both ratings issued at the same time - the Check Ride is different and the Ground School is not quite the same either (from memory). There is more emphasis on Fault Analysis on the CRI - whereas on the FI the assumption is that you are starting from scratch.
What I did was the CRI (in 2007) and then followed up with the FI a year or so later. In theory it should be a case of straightforward credit for the Ground School (again from memory no credit for the 3h Flying). In practice the CAA were not too co-operative. But eventually it got sorted out and I got both ratings.
Having a Flying job to go with them would be another Bonus.
What I did was the CRI (in 2007) and then followed up with the FI a year or so later. In theory it should be a case of straightforward credit for the Ground School (again from memory no credit for the 3h Flying). In practice the CAA were not too co-operative. But eventually it got sorted out and I got both ratings.
Having a Flying job to go with them would be another Bonus.
