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Sport-CFI Add On

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Flight Instructor, Light Sport Aircraft

If I get my Sport-CFI for gliders or powered parachutes at the minimum 100 hours, can I add the category of (sport) airplanes before the 150 hours you’d typically need to test for it? I can’t find anything that says you can’t, but this seems odd to me. Thank you in advance.

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  1. Russ Roslewski on Dec 11, 2019

    61.411:

    “If you are applying for a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating
    for . . .

    (a) Airplane category and single-engine class privileges,

    Then you must log at least . . .

    (1) 150 hours of flight time as a pilot, (plus some other requirements)”

    It doesn’t make any differentiation between people who have another Sport CFI rating or not, so there is no provision for that. You need the 150 hours (and the other requirements) regardless of if you are already a CFI – Light Sport – Glider.

    For the other pilot and instructor ratings where there is an add-on provision that removes some experience requirements, it is purposely spelled out.

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