SFI/SFE
 

I am very shortly going to reach 65 and therefore retirement from active commercial flying duties. I am the holder of an UK issued EASA ATPL, current type rating and class one medical, and wanting to become an SFI/SFE. I was previously a TRI/TRE but now expired. Have looked around various publications but cannot find a definitive answer to the following : As a SFI/SFE post 65 years old, will I need to maintain a current ATPL with class one medical and still be type rated to act as an SFI/SFE on that type ? If you could point me in the direction of the correct publications would be most grateful. Thanks in advance for any help on this.

FCL.1010.SFE SFE – Prerequisites Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (a) SFE(A). Applicants for an SFE certificate for aeroplanes shall: (1) hold or have held an ATPL(A), a class or type rating and an SFI(A) certificate for the applicable type of aeroplane; (2) have at least 1 500 hours of flight time as a pilot on multi-pilot aeroplanes; (3) for the initial issue of an SFE certificate, have completed at least 50 hours of synthetic flight instruction as an SFI(A) on the applicable type.

part FCL is your friend

Part FCL is nobody’s friend. It is disjointed in many areas and poorly indexed and so a nightmare to just pick up to get a definitive answer to a question.

I do apologise.

The important words are ‘have held’.

Hth

You don’t need a medical for SFE / SFI. It is all in EASA regs.