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Cubdriver · 08-26-2008, 07:07 AM

CFR FAR 61.3 covers sit. Without an active instructor's certificate you are not authorized to instruct toward a flight rating or certificate, although you may "play instruct" all you like. Without a student pilot certificate no one may act as PIC of an airplane. A friend wiggling the controls is not responsible for whatever they do, you are.

I see the value in simulated instructing a little perhaps, but there's an obvious limit on the value of it for either party.

08-26-2008, 07:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
Cubdriver Has A Custom Title Joined APC: May 2006 Position: CFI Posts: 1,322	CFR FAR 61.3 covers sit. Without an active instructor's certificate you are not authorized to instruct toward a flight rating or certificate, although you may "play instruct" all you like. Without a student pilot certificate no one may act as PIC of an airplane. A friend wiggling the controls is not responsible for whatever they do, you are. I see the value in simulated instructing a little perhaps, but there's an obvious limit on the value of it for either party. __________________ Turn the heat O-F-F! Last edited by Cubdriver : 08-26-2008 at 07:20 AM.