That's pretty interesting news since absence of access to a complex airplane is what's been stopping me from finishing my commercial. Have you got a link or something? I don't see anything on the FAA homepage?
Just to be clear, this change to the ACS only eliminates the need to use a complex airplane on the checkride. You still have to log 10 hours of complex time IAW 61.129.
This is correct. So I suspect much of the benefit will be to CFI applicants. But that raises another question: Since first-time applicants have to go thru the FSDO, are FSDO examiners willing to ride in an EAB?
The FSDO's have been instructed by DC to no longer do CFI checkrides and instead send the applicants to a DPE assigned to do the ride. Which is BS because its an expensive and exhaustive checkride with the DPE's in my area now authorized to do them. I know a guy who was in his oral for 6 hours and 2.5 hours in the airplane. I was able to get in with a FSDO examiner who told me they still have discresion to continue doing them but most FSDO's are no longer doing them.
The FSDO inspector I did mine with enjoys doing the checkrides, and specifically told me he did not like to go over questions about things like the FOI questions to see if the applicant could regurgitate that stuff from memory.
Understand that you cannot go to a DPE of your choice for an initial cfi checkride-you must go to one specifically authorized for cfi rides by the FSDO.
Many DPE's charge for retakes, so it behooves them financially to fail applicants. This stuff is borderline criminal.
The FSDO's have been instructed by DC to no longer do CFI checkrides and instead send the applicants to a DPE assigned to do the ride. Which is BS because its an expensive and exhaustive checkride with the DPE's in my area now authorized to do them. I know a guy who was in his oral for 6 hours and 2.5 hours in the airplane. I was able to get in with a FSDO examiner who told me they still have discresion to continue doing them but most FSDO's are no longer doing them.
Around here he DPE's are magnitudes harder to do the CFI checkride with. Very low initial pass rate for the CFI with these guys. The FSDO inspectors are free and the ones I've dealt with have been very reasonable. The FSDO inspector I did mine with enjoys doing the checkrides, and specifically told me he did not like to go over questions about things like the FOI questions to see if the applicant could regurgitate that stuff from memory.
Correct. The FSDO assigns specifically who you take a ride with....