Originally Posted by
FullThrust
You also don’t need a medical to flight instruct either in some cases. Nor do you need to have three takeoffs and landings within 90 days at night to provide instruction (The FAA published a letter of interpretation on this). If flight instructing was a commercial operation you would be illegal to do the above.
That is because for instruction where the student is already at least a private pilot (can log PIC) then the instructor does not need to be the PIC of the flight, hence no need for medical or landing currency. However, that does not change the fact that the instructor still needs to have both a commercial certificate and CFI, and by definition is operating under the commercial certificate for compensation/hire.
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