Sport Pilot Talk The discussion forum for Sport Pilots and Light Sport Aircraft   You are viewing the archive. Click on the "SportPilotTalk" logo on the left for the live forum! Sport pilot CFI Click here to go to the original topic          Sport Pilot Talk Forum Index -> Instructors' Corner View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message mhaleem Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Posts: 9 Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:14 am    Post subject: Sport pilot CFI   Can someone give me their opinion. Is there any worth to obtaining a sport pilot cfi rating if I plan on obtaining my commercial/cfi. There are two flight schools in my area with sport planes; one school flies the alegro and the other remos. Neither school offers guarantees on hiring a sport cfi should I obtain my rating with them. Thanks Back to top   drseti Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 1384 Location: Lock Haven PA Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:32 pm    Post subject:   Purely my opinion, but since you asked: If you're planning to go for the Comml/CFI anyway, there's really only one reason to pick up the CFI-SP first. That would be if you plan to instruct in SLAs to help pay your way toward the higher ratings. If you can afford to go for the Comml/CFI without needing CFI-SP income, then you should do so. Even though the CFI-SP is an entirely respectable rating, most flight schools (including mine) prefer to hire Comml/CFIs. This is because a student's dual instruction toward the Sport Pilot rating can be applied toward higher ratings only if the instruction was given by a CFI. Instruction given by a CFI-SP counts toward the sport pilot rating only. Whichever way you go, I'm sure you're going to enjoy instructing in LSAs. Safe skies, Paul Back to top            Sport Pilot Talk Forum Index -> Instructors' Corner Page 1 of 1 Powered by phpBB Search Engine Indexer Powered by phpBB 2.0.22 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group