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Andre Volant wrote:
What are FAA minimums for CFIG rating in U.S.A., the requirements and
experience that glider pilot has to have before FAA flight test for
glider instructor certificate.

Full CFIG needs a commercial glider rating, which requires

(f) For a glider rating. A person who applies for a commercial pilot
certificate with a glider category rating must log at least:

(1) 25 hours of flight time as a pilot in a glider and that flight
time must include at least 100 flights in a glider as pilot in command,
including at least...(and some other specifics)
or 200 hours in heavier-than-air aircraft and (some other specifics)


Sport Pilot CFI-Glider avoids the need to get a Private, Commercial,
and CFIG. Instead one can get an SP or Private - Glider rating, and then
get an SP - CFI without getting a commercial.

Otherwise the requirements seem to mirror the full CFIG. The exception
is for a pilot with 100 hours in heavier-than-air
aircraft, 20 flights in a glider, and 15 flights as pilot in command in
a glider that is a light-sport aircraft. Then one doesn't need the
25 glider hours.

Also, what are criteria and minimum experience CFIG has to have for
commercial operation and for a club in US. Are they different?

Each club and commercial op. sets their own standards, but
from what I've seen, a brand new CFI is fine at many places..

Are they different for Civil Air Patrol?
Don't know

Are they different for Air Force Academy?
I think the AF is under military rules. I think they can just
do whatever they want without FAA jurisdiction. But don;t quote me
on that. And of course they do have SOME standard, I just don't know
what it is.

What are minimums to be a glider instructor in other countries?
Good question. I especially like the idea that I think the BGA
has, with lots of different levels of instructors (can only
let students manuever above a certain altitude, etc.). Somebody else
can run this down for us perhaps.

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Mark J. Boyd