Forty years ago, ACME and other schools were having their
students and instructors take the tests [all of them] dozens
of times. The tests were of limited numbers and the schools
were having student memorize the questions and answers.
Rated pilots and instructors were also taking the tests
multiple times.

Requiring endorsements and also yanking certificates if a
pilot failed the test for a rating already held was used to
keep the work load down. [Test were all given by the FAA
then and they were "free."] Later lawsuits by the schools
made the FAA publish the question bank [but not the
answers].


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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| On Feb 15, 5:03 pm, "kevmor" wrote:
| I understand it as the IRA (Instrument Rating Airplane)
and FII
| (Flight Instructor Instrument) tests come from the same
question
| bank. Does the FII test expire like the IRA does? I
didn't see it in
| part 61 unless I'm missing something. To me, it seems
like none of
| the tests expire for CFI?
|
| As others have said, it does expire. If you take the IRA
also take the
| IGI exam and get your IGI rating for free (assuming you
already have
| FOI).
| The one difference between CFI knowledge tests and pilot
knowledge
| tests is that you do not need an endorsement to take the
CFI knowledge
| tests, just walk in and take them. I never figured out why
the FAA
| requires endorsements for the pilot knowledge exams.
|
| -Robert, CFII
|