FAA PPL Biennial (BFR)
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From: City Of London
Many thanks one & all for the useful input! Have just got around to replying to the PM's I received.
With this helpful information, I should have enough contacts to have a ring around now.
Thanks once again
With this helpful information, I should have enough contacts to have a ring around now.
Thanks once again
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From: USA
Perhaps with bosex, the best thing to do is ignore him or her. The ignore list works wonders, a little like internet earplugs. Makes the whining noise go away.
For someone that doesn't care about what goes on abroad, he sure imagines he has a clue about foreign policy and regulation...yet somehow consistently gets it wrong.
Where's that ignore button, again?
For someone that doesn't care about what goes on abroad, he sure imagines he has a clue about foreign policy and regulation...yet somehow consistently gets it wrong.
Where's that ignore button, again?
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From: Lahore
Hi guys,
I tried going through this post but couldnt really make out what i am looking for.
I am FAA CPL/IR and CFI holder. I am almost due for my BFR and CFI renewal.
If I have another FAA CFI available, can he do my BFR in a non N-Registered airplane.
Also I have all the requirements for CFI renewal. Have successfully given more than 10 sign offs within past 24 months with more than 80% passrate. Do I have to be present in US to get it renewed or it can be done while i am physically in my own home country.
Thanks,
HJM
I tried going through this post but couldnt really make out what i am looking for.
I am FAA CPL/IR and CFI holder. I am almost due for my BFR and CFI renewal.
If I have another FAA CFI available, can he do my BFR in a non N-Registered airplane.
Also I have all the requirements for CFI renewal. Have successfully given more than 10 sign offs within past 24 months with more than 80% passrate. Do I have to be present in US to get it renewed or it can be done while i am physically in my own home country.
Thanks,
HJM
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From: EuroGA.org
If I have another FAA CFI available, can he do my BFR in a non N-Registered airplane.
There is NO law I know of in the USA which requires an N-reg plane for a BFR, or any other FAA related instruction for that matter.
Checkrides (not your case) may be a different matter. There are some indications that it is a current requirement from the FAA office in New York which is now responsible for authorising FAA DPE examiners to do checkrides abroad, that checkrides must be done in an N-reg. I have never seen this verified, however.
But you are not after a checkride; just a BFR, and I cannot see a problem with doing that in Mongolia, in a plane registered in the Belgian Congo, so long as you do it with the proper FAA CFI or whatever
However, I have heard recently that a CFI renewal outside the USA does involve getting some documents notarised or something like that... worth checking this with the FAA. It could be nonsense, or not.
Out of interest, what are the requirements an FAA CFI needs to meet to continue being a CFI?
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Personally I find Bose's to-the-point, no-nonsense attitude very refreshing.
Given the truly international scale of civil aviation, national rules can't cater for every situation, and applying them without common sense or context is simple stupidity.
Given the truly international scale of civil aviation, national rules can't cater for every situation, and applying them without common sense or context is simple stupidity.
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If I have another FAA CFI available, can he do my BFR in a non N-Registered airplane.
Also I have all the requirements for CFI renewal. Have successfully given more than 10 sign offs within past 24 months with more than 80% passrate. Do I have to be present in US to get it renewed or it can be done while i am physically in my own home country.
Also I have all the requirements for CFI renewal. Have successfully given more than 10 sign offs within past 24 months with more than 80% passrate. Do I have to be present in US to get it renewed or it can be done while i am physically in my own home country.
You do not need to be in the US to renew your flight instructor certificate. Do it online. You can do it with proof of your instructing records, but you can also do it with a refresher course online, too.
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From: St Remy de Provence
Can you introduce a long retired Laker Airways skipper to you FAA CFI in the UK to refresh my rapidly dimming memory so I can fly my little N reg Seminole around the Med in the sunshine. Thanks
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From: Southern UK
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From: UK,Twighlight Zone
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So why don't you sod off and pontificate elsewhere
Since you put it so eloquently Bose-X let me reciprocate:
as usual you're being a jack-@ss....
So why don't you sod off and pontificate elsewhere
Since you put it so eloquently Bose-X let me reciprocate:
as usual you're being a jack-@ss....
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Maybe he's a slow thinker?
Honestly I didn't read the dates on the thread so my apologies to Bose-X.
You WERE a jack-@ass 14 months ago, maybe you lightened up a little in the mean time? You've had 4,005 posts to practice...
