Flight Instructor

The very first step on the flight instructor career path is to obtain the flight instructor (aeroplanes) certificate or simply the FI(A). To do so you need to attend the specific training. During the FFI(A) training you will develop your instructor competences to be able to provide the flight instruction for the private pilot training and light aircraft pilot training. The FI(A) training consists of the exercises you will be completing with yourLAPL(A) and PPL(A) students on a routine basis.
The FI(A) course is a competency-based training focused on the development of the core instructor competences. The special emphasis will be on your ability to teach the PPL/LAPL theoretical knowledge as well as to teach the long briefings, flying exercises and debriefing of theLAPL(A) and PPL(A) exercises. Upon completion of the course you will be allowed to provide the training for LAPL(A) and PPL(A) in single-engine piston class in VFR day. First 100 hours you will be restricted to provide the flight instruction under the supervision of the senior instructor who will be appointed to you by the flight school. As a restricted flight instructor, you will also not be allowed to let the student fly first solo.

 The natural development of the flight instructor career is to extend the instructor privileges to the other kinds of the trainings. Following trainings do not require any kind of specialized training - Flight Instructor for Aerotowing training, Flight Instructor for VFR Night training and Flight Instructor for Aerobatics training. Only requirement is to demonstrate your ability to teach towards the ratings to the senior flight instructor qualified to teach towards that rating and towards the instructor certification.
The most common way of Flight Instructor development is to become a VFR Night instructor. Flying in night and giving the instructor to the trainee in night is like a fresh wind and motivation for an instructor who sat more then 100 hours in the aircraft doing the traffic patterns with a newbies.

 
The more instructional experience you get, the further you can extend your flight instructor privileges. Besides being a good pilot, to teach the future instructors requires the advanced instructor competences, through knowledge of PPL(A) and LAPL(A) training syllabi as well as being able to explain what are the common mistakes of the students in the each respective phase of LAPL(A) and PPL(A) trainings. Therefore you need to have a vast instructional experience to be able to do so. 
The major change in delivering the instructor training is not only change of the instructor seat (who will now occupy the seat usually assigned to the trainee), but the overall training structure. You are now going to train the trainer. That is a very responsible role as you will be directly influencing the safety of aviation future.
Based on your privileges, your Flight Instructor privileges will be extended to to provide the trainings to the Class Rating Instructors, Instrument Rating Instrucotrs, Flight Instructors and Mountain Instructors provided you hold the same instructor privileges.
To extend your Flight Instructor certificate to instructor privileges, you need to complete at least 500 hours of flight instruction as a flight instructor and attend the specific instructor assessment of competence with Flight Instructor Examiner specifically focused on the train the trainer role.

 
The Multi-pilot licence is one of the most sofisticated trainings in the aviation industry. The aim is to provide the trainee with the training from the 0 up to the cockpit of the jetliner in a very short period of time as well as with straight-forward track without necessity to fly the conventional modular course.
Therefore the flight instructor providing some specific phases of the Multi-pilot training needs to have the vast experience as flight instructor providing the basic trainings. Even the MPL instructor privileges are very structured. Generally, to teach towards the core flying phase training for Multi-pilot licence, you would need to have minimum of 500 hours of flight time as a pilot of aeroplanes, including at least 200 hours as a flight instructor.
For the basic part of the Multi-pilot licence training, you would need to hold a multi-engine aeroplane instrument rating and the flight instructor privileges to instruct for an instrument rating as well as to have at least 1 500 hours of flight time in multi-crew operations.