Better check your club and insurance rules. Normally they forbid a non-CFI from flying right seat.

They will also forbid any instruction by non-club CFI's.


Legally you can teach and they can learn but it does not count as dual towards any FAA requirement, and really should not be logged as any sort of flight time for the "student" since they are not getting dual, PIC, or SIC...legally its an "airplane ride".

Be careful doing that, there's a reason the CFI rating is hard to get.

It's great that you are trying to introduce someone to aviation. By all means take her up for some fun flights to wet her appetite. But please don't attempt to teach when you're not yet a CFI, it's hard enough for us Instructors to undo bad habits taught by other CFI's let alone the bad habits picked up by someone play instructing.

As rules go, you can pilot from any seat you wish. Personally I would advise against getting into the side you are less familiar with. By placing yourself in a less familiar situation (seat) you are in fact raising the risk factor for the flight. All though the risk may be perceived as a slight one, why raise a risk factor by even a smidgen if there was no good reason to?

On a side note, I was once doing a checkout flight for a newly minted instructor who had done all his flight training at one of the brand name zero-to-hero schools. Because they did nearly all of their training in multi-engines the students were required to do most of their flight training (even towards the CFI ratings) in the left seat. Upon a less than stellar landing for him in the right seat I joked to him that they must not be teaching instructors to fly right seat at his school. He in all seriousness told me that he had only logged 5 hours in the right seat before becoming a CFI. Suffice to say, he did not get my stamp of approval to instruct in our aircraft.