On Aug 17, 6:07 pm, "Steven Barnes" wrote:
I think there a bit of confusion there. I believe Robert is describing a
"CFII" as someone with only an Instrument-Airplane rating. They cannot teach
Private, Commercial, BFRs, checkouts, etc. Pretty much all they can do is
IFR & IPCs (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

The Hillsboro place wants CFIs who ALSO have the Instrument-Airplane.

"Gattman" wrote in message

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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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During the CFII you will cover all the FOI stuff during the oral so when
you go for
the CFI checkride it will be about 1/2 as hard. Otherwise you take a
really hard checkride with the initial CFI and then the CFII is an
easy add-on. The downside is that a CFII can do very little. The rating
is
so
limited that its not really marketable.

Fascinating. I called about a CFI job in Hillsboro and the chief
recruiter
said they prefer CFIIs because their students don't like to switch
instructors after their PPL. I thought that was a little odd, so I talked
to a friend whose a rotorcraft student out there and he described the
place
as a pilot mill where the instructors were paid very little under the
expectation that they would bolt to the airlines at the first opportunity.

I'm not sure I'm interested in a "Do you want fries with that?" style
flying
job, but if so, there's a case for the extra 'I'.

-c

CFII's can also teach instrument procedures in a flight simulator and
have it count as time with a "qualified instructor" even thought that
instructor isn't qualified to instruct in airplanes.