SaltyDog,

That's interesting. I've never heard of the LOOA before.

In the past, I had tried to get the FAA to not issue but, RENEW my CFI based on that fact that I had graduated from military IP school and was an active IP. One would think that would be good enough to keep the ticket alive, but they refused citing the regulations that lists very specific items one must do to renew the CFI. Graduating from a military school was not one of them. However, this past year, I was able to renew my CFI based on being an Evaluator. That fell under the rule of "Being in a position to regularly evaluate pilots". That the FARs state is one one of the options to renew the CFI. I'm not really sure why they would not renew it based on being an mil IP, but they would based on being an mil EP. As I'm sure you know, the interpretation of the regs can vary greatly based on the FSDO that is making the ruling.

I would like to see the regs modified to allow someone that has a civil CFI to keep it current based on mil IP activity.

I too, would hope that if the FAA did approve the mil IP conversion thing, that if someone did want to "use" it for some type of instruction they would go do more research/study before they gave the instruction, but I hate to think that they FAA would give someone a ticket with the HOPES that they would "take it seriously and do more study" before they exercised the privilages of that certificate.

Wingnut