Certified Flight Instructor Course
You’ve worked really hard to become a professional pilot; now it’s time to pass your skills along. As a certified flight instructor, you can quickly build flight experience to meet airline and corporate hiring minimums. Being a certified flight instructor is a challenging and rewarding career that utilizes all you have learned during your own flight training. Flight instructors aim to be role models of the aviation community, sharing knowledge and experience with their students. For many people, it is also the first job in aviation that earns them a paycheck.
The eligibility requirements for a CFI are as follows:
Be 18 years of age
Read, speak, write and understand the English language
Hold either a commercial pilot certificate or airline transport pilot certificate and an instrument rating
Have logged at least 250 hours of flight time
Hold a valid FAA 3rd Class Medical Certificate (or higher)
Receive a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor on the fundamentals of instructing
Pass a knowledge test on the aeronautical knowledge areas appropriate to the flight instructor rating sought
Upon completion, you will have a CFI position waiting for you here at Olie Aviation!
