Originally Posted by
Cranford
Ok!- Great Point timnunes- this is the kind of stuff I hadn't thought of, you guys are giving me good food for thought. So- these newly minted CFIs that work for the 141 operations- they have to give instruction only to the new students, right? the ones that are working toward private and/or commercial? That's not too bad- I would enjoy working with that target area of students.
When you say "find and instructor willing to work for a start up", do you mean the 2nd instructor i would try to hire (as Cubdriver suggests)?
The limitation on junior instructors teaching CFI applicants requires some clarification...
A less-than-two-year CFI can give instruction and sign students off for checkrides for any cert or rating which they are qualified to teach (including the ATP), except for an INITIAL CFI rating. A junior CFI can give instruction and sign off an applicant for, say, a CFII rating if the applicant already has an instructor rating of some sort.
A junior CFI can actually give instruction to an initial CFI applicant (there is no set amount of instruction required), but cannot sign him/her off for the checkride. I have seen schools which would have junior CFIs get the CFI applicant ready, then a 2-year would do some oral, take him up once to verify everything, and sign him off. Perfectly legal.