For how long is an EASA Instructor Certificate valid for?
EASA Licences and ratings
For how long is an EASA Instructor Certificate valid for?
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EASA Instructor Certificate is valid for 36 months. This includes all certificates such as FI, CRI, IRI, MI, TRI, SFI.
If you however are a holder of FI(A) and you add a CRI privileges, it will be all included in your FI(A) certificate. So instead two different instructor certificates, you will have to watch only one expiry date.
Same applies for TRI or SFI certificates. Should you are a TRI for various types - e.g. TRI CL65 and TRI C525 all your type rating instructor privileges will be merged into the TRI certificate expiry date.
To revalidate the instructor certificate for next 36 months holder needs to usually attend the assessment of competence with an EASA examiner with particular privileges.
- single pilot aeroplanes instructor certificates such as FI, CRI or IRI could be revalidated by so-called Flight Instructor Examiner
- single-pilot high performance and multi pilot instructor certificates such as SFI or TRI could be revalidated by so-called Type Rating Examiner or Synthetic Flight Examiner with respective privileges
Recommendation
To keep your EASA Instructor Certificate valid, in most cases you will have to meet two out of the three requirements:
- recent instructor experience
- instructor refresher seminar
- assessment of competence for particular instructor certificate
You can revalidate your EASA Instructor Certificate within last 12 month before the expiry date to keep the current expiry date pattern. So to avoid any problems with the EASA Instructor certificate validity, we strongly recommend you to revalidate your Instructor Certificate as soon as possible within 12 months prior the expiry date.
Please keep in mind that to exercise your instructor privileges, you have to be qualified as a pilot-in-command on particular class or type. It means you need to have a valid medical certificate as well as the valid class or type rating in your EASA pilot licence.
