Talk:Flight instructor

Clean-up tag removed. Articles on aviation regulation on Wikipedia are fraught with problems because each jurisdiction does things differently, and one particular jurisdiction has by far the largest share of aviators and first-language English-speakers, and they frequently tend to write articles in a non-globalized manner. HOWEVER, considering all this, this particular article isn't really that bad.BaseTurnComplete 22:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I think a section with JAA/ EASA definitions needs to be added as this represents one of the largest if not the largest Aerospace jusrisdiction — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williambrodie (talk • contribs) 17:22, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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Certified VS Certificated
This whole paragraph is stupid. Pilots love semantic arguments, but I think this whole section should be deleted in favor of simple parenthetical near the introduction... "A certificated flight instructor (also commonly referred to as a certified flight instructor) Yes, there is no such thing as a private pilot LICENSE, but who cares, that is the common vernacular. Pilots all think they are lawyers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.182.36.37 (talk) 09:06, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Not to be pedantic, but there is no such thing as a "certified flight instructor." Legally, that implies that the FAA certified the instructor as competent, and is therefore liable for any deficiencies in case of an untoward incident. To avoid this potential liability, the FAA is quite emphatic that the "certification" is done by a Designated Pilot Examiner. Once the DPE certifies the pilot as a competent instructor, the FAA issues a certificate, then the instructor becomes an FAA certificated pilot. That's a subtle but very important legal distinction. Flight instructors are never referred to as "certified flight instructors" except by people who are not conversant with aviation terminology.12.89.124.50 (talk) 22:15, 2 December 2020 (UTC)