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Flight Instructor Endorsements & TSA Requirements for Flight Instruction
Steve Sconfienza, Ph.D.
Airline Transport Pilot
Flight Instructor: Airplane Single and Multiengine; Instrument Airplane
cell: 518.366.3957
e-mail: docsteve@localnet.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has established requirements for the security training of aviation professionals and for alien flight training & citizenship validation. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has online guidance concerning compliance with these requirements and providing options for on-line training.
Recommended TSA endorsements are as follows:
Each flight training provider is required to determine U.S. citizenship before training is started for a recreational, sport pilot, private pilot (single or multiengine) certificate, multiengine rating (at any level), or instrument rating (does not include recurrent training). This only applies to people beginning training after October 20, 2004. Evidence may be shown by one of the following:
The instructor must then comply with one of the following two options:
Make an endorsement in both the instructor's logbook, or other record used by the instructor to record flight student endorsements, and the student's logbook with the following:
I certify that (First name, MI, last name) has presented me a
(type of document presented & relevant control or sequential number on the document, if any)
establishing that he/she is a U.S. citizen or national in accordance with 49 CFR 1552.3(h).
[Sign with
date,
instructor's signature, and
CFI number,
relevant (or all) ratings, &
expiration date.]
Keep a copy of the documents used to prove citizenship for five years.
Flight training can begin after the documents have been reviewed and either the logbook endorsement is made or copies are obtained by the instructor.
See AOPA's TSA Section (noted above) for additional information, including on the training of non-U.S. citizens.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provides recommendations for Flight Instructor "Recommended Endorsements" that a flight instructor would make in a pilot's logbook. All of these recommendations are contained in the following:
The endoresements are in the following categories:
The "Additional Endorsements" category would include, e.g., Flight Review, Instrument Proficiency Check, Tailwheel Airplane, etc.
Additional information is in the FAA's "FAR Part 61 and 141 Frequently Asked Questions" (reproduced on this web site.) Also of interest might be the FAA's "Aeronautical Experience Check List" (also reproduced on our web site).
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