Originally Posted by
GoingdaDistance
I agree. Other than building time for a 121 job, I took the tour through flight school to learn how to instruct aerobatics. I can't wait to teach that stuff to my kids; someday - god willing.
On a different note, I don't know if this was covered in earlier posts. I was following this issue more closely before I separated last year. I believe there is a stipulation in the requirements that the Military IP would have to have passed a service approved instructor course, i.e. a CNATRA FITU or HITU for the naval aviators out there. I'm sure the AF and Army have something similar. Correct me if I am wrong, but this terminology would seem to exclude the "fleet" airframe IPs from being eligible.
From what I remember, the training command skippers endorsed the concept when the request for input came through Corpus last year. Last I heard was that something might becoming this fall. No check flight but, you would have to pass two exams for the CFI and CFII stamps.
I think the IP school thing is correct, in the AF, guys that go to white jets, PIT would most likely qualify, just hang on to that form 8, and some mil flight records showing IP time would probably be a good thing to show them.