Sport Pilot DPE shortage
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Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
Great news, Professor!
- Jim Hardin
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Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
A little late but congrats Paul.
Can you sign off your own students and examine them or play shuffle with another instructor?
Can you sign off your own students and examine them or play shuffle with another instructor?
Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
Jim Hardin wrote:A little late but congrats Paul.
Can you sign off your own students and examine them or play shuffle with another instructor?
Huh ... I cannot imagine this being ethically acceptable

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Flying Sting S4 ( N184WA ) out of Illinois
Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
Jim Hardin wrote:A little late but congrats Paul.
Can you sign off your own students and examine them or play shuffle with another instructor?
He can instruct them, then hand them off to another instructor for check ride prep, then do the check ride. He can't both sign them off and do the check ride.
Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
Congrats, Paul!
As a DPE-SP, can you give the CFI-S checkride?
As a DPE-SP, can you give the CFI-S checkride?
Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
3Dreaming wrote:He can instruct them, then hand them off to another instructor for check ride prep, then do the check ride. He can't both sign them off and do the check ride.
That's correct. As an aside: for Sport Pilots, the FARs require 2 hours of checkride prep (dual) within the 2 calendar months prior to the practical test. (For Private candidates, it's 3 hours.) But, another regulation says the recommending Instructor must have given any applicant 3 hours of dual to sign him or her off. So, my plan is to turn my students over to an adjunct CFI after completing XC training. That other CFI will finish them up, walk them through the IACRA process, sign them off, and then I will have to evaluate them as though I had never flown with them.
The opinions posted are those of one CFI, and do not necessarily represent the FAA or its lawyers.
Prof. H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC, iRMT
AvSport of Lock Haven
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Prof. H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC, iRMT
AvSport of Lock Haven
fly@AvSport.org
http://AvSport.org
http://facebook.com/SportFlying
Re: Sport Pilot DPE shortage
Hambone wrote:As a DPE-SP, can you give the CFI-S checkride?
Not yet, Ham. After I've served as a DPE for a year, I can then apply to add that privilege.
The opinions posted are those of one CFI, and do not necessarily represent the FAA or its lawyers.
Prof. H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC, iRMT
AvSport of Lock Haven
fly@AvSport.org
http://AvSport.org
http://facebook.com/SportFlying
Prof. H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D., CFII, LSRM-A/GL/WS/PPC, iRMT
AvSport of Lock Haven
fly@AvSport.org
http://AvSport.org
http://facebook.com/SportFlying
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