Minimum Requirements

• Be able to read, speak, and write English
• Be 18 years old
• Pass the required FAA Knowledge Test (70% or better)
• Hold at least a Private Pilot License
• Aeronautical Experience
• At least 50 hours cross country
• 10 hours must be in airplanes
• 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time
• 15 hours training from an authorized instructor
• 3 hours flight training within 60 days preceding the practical test
• Instrument training of cross country flight procedures specific to the airplane consisting of:
• 250 nautical miles along airways or ATC direction
• Instrument approach at each airport
• Three different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems
• Maximum of 30 hours in a simulator if part 142 approved
• Maximum of 20 hours in a simulator if part 141 approved

Privileges and Limitations

• Ability to fly in less than VFR weather
• Ability for SVFR at night if airports approve

Minimum Requirements

• Be able to read, speak, and write English
• Be 18 years old
• Pass the required FAA Knowledge Test (70% or better)
• Hold a commercial pilot license or an airline transport license with:
• Category and class ratings for the instructor certificate sought and;
• Instrument rating if applying for:
• Flight instructor single engine airplane
• Flight instructor multi engine airplane
• Flight instructor powered lift
• Flight instructor instrument
• Pass the Fundamentals of Instructing Knowledge Test unless the applicant:
• Holds a flight or ground instructor certificate
• Holds a current teachers certificate issued by a State, county, city, or municipality to teach 7th grade or higher
• Employed as a teacher of an accredited college or university
• Train for, and receive, an endorsement on instructional proficiency in stall awareness, spin entry, spins, and spin recoveries and;
  Demonstrate instructional stall awareness, spin entry, spins, and spin recovery
• At least 15 hours Pilot in Command in the category and class of aircraft
• Comply with appropriate sections
• Pass the required oral exam and practical test

Privileges and Limitations

• Endorsements within the instructors limitations and rating that are required for and relate to:
• Student pilots
• Pilot certificate
• Flight instructor certificate
• Ground instructor certificate
• Aircraft rating
• Instrument rating
• Flight review/Operating privileges/Recency of experience
• Practical test
• Knowledge test
• Hours of Training
• No more than 8 hours flight training within a consecutive 24 hours period
• Aircraft ratings
• A flight instructor may not conduct flight training in an aircraft for which the flight instructor does not hold:
• Pilot and flight instructor certificate applicable to the class and category
• If appropriate, a type rating
• Instrument Rating
• Must hold instrument rating on the flight instructor certificate appropriate to the category and class of aircraft in which training is being provided
• Limitations on endorsements:
• Student pilots for solo privileges:
• Unless the flight instructor has:
• Given that student the required flight training for solo flight
• Determined that the student is prepared to conduct the flight safely under the known conditions
• Student solo cross country:
• Unless the flight instructor has determined that the student's preflight preparation, planning, equipment, and proposed procedures are adequate for the proposed flight under the known conditions
• Student pilot into Class B airspace:
• Unless that flight instructor has:
• Given the student ground and flight training in that Class B airspace or that airport
• Determined the student is proficient to operate the aircraft safely
• Flight review:
• Unless that flight instructor has conducted the flight review
• Instrument Proficiency Check:
• Unless the flight instructor has tested that pilot
• Aircraft that require a type rating
• An instuctor may not conduct flight training in an aircraft that requires a type rating unless the flight instructor has that type rating on his or her pilot certificate
• May NOT self endorse for any reason