Originally Posted by
kaputt
I have a student that is a CFI-G and is going to be adding on CFI-A. He is studying for the written and planning to take the 25 question add-on written. He asked me a question that I didn't know the answer to so I figured I would tap the knowledge base here.
He is using the ASA prep and the key at the beginning says to study questions with 'AIR' marked before the question. However, some of the questions that are marked 'AIR' are also marked 'GLI', so presumably he's already been tested on those. But it's a little unclear if those questions can be re-asked again?
The test prep does make a distinction that anything marked 'ALL' does not need to be studied. Most of the questions that are marked for both 'AIR' and 'GLI' are items in the aerodynamics and aircraft performance category. Tried looking through regs and other FAA docs and came up empty.
Logic should dictate that they won't be asked again, but I know the FAA/govt doesn't always deal in logic. Any help that could be provided would be awesome.
When I added my CFI-A to my CFI-H I wanted to go the 25 question route as well. But the bank of questions is the entire test bank. So I could be asked any of the over 1000 questions at any point in the 25. Eventually I just went ahead and took the full 100 question test. Did two things for me. Better prepared me for the test AND I could miss more questions and still pass than I could with the 25 question test.
The other misunderstanding about doing an add on rating is the examiner CAN ask you questions about anything related to the check ride. So the add on applicant CAN be asked about the FOI and fail the check ride for not knowing the FOIs.
If you read page 21, just below the addon matrix of FAA-S-8081-6D Flight Instructor Practical Test Standards for Airplane it says the following
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At the discretion of the examiner, the applicant’s competence in any Area of Operation may be evaluated."
This means any question can be asked, any knowledge can be tested regardless of if it is part of the addon matrix or not.