Assistant Flight Instructor Rating
Learn the basics to advanced coursework of Assistant Flight Instructor Rating with Garg Aviation and achieve your dream of flying with pride.
Assistant Flight Instructor Rating (AFIR) is required to be held by Commercial Pilot Licence holders to be employed as an Assistant Flight Instructor (AFI) for the purpose of delivering lessons and training to students. The extent of training varies from individual to individual.
Key Features
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Eligibility
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Licence & Privileges
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Career Opportunities
(a) Age—
He shall be not less than eighteen years of age on the date of application.(b) Knowledge—
He shall pass an oral or written examination in the following subjects in accordance with the prescribed syllabus:—(i) Techniques of applied Instruction;
(ii) Assessment of student performance in those subjects in which ground instruction is given;
(iii) The learning process;
(iv) Elements of effective teaching;
(v) Student evaluation and testing, training philosophies;
(vi) Training programme development;
(vii) Lesson planning;
(viii) Classroom instructional techniques;
(ix) Use of training aids, including flight simulation training devices as appropriate;
(x) Analysis and correction of student errors;
(xi) Human performance relevant to flight instruction including principles of threat and error
management;
(xii) Hazards involved in simulating system failure and malfunctions in the aircraft.
(c) Experience—
He shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily completed as pilot of an aeroplane on the date of application for the rating —not less than one hundred hours of flight time as a Pilot-in-Command of an aeroplane of which
not less than twenty hours shall have been completed within a period of eighteen months
immediately preceding the date of application; and in the case of helicopters, not less than fifty
hours flight time as a pilot-in-Command of a helicopter of which not less than twenty hours shall
have been completed within a period of eighteen months immediately preceding the date of
application; and
(ii) not less than twenty hours of flying training as an Instructor under an approved
Flight Instructor/Examiner as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General.
(d) Other Requirements—
He shall be the holder of an appropriate current professional pilot’s licence.(e) Skill—
He shall have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Examiner his competency as an Assistant Flight Instructor by performing the procedures and manoeuvres prescribed in the syllabus within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application. Subject to the validity of endorsements and rating in his pilot’s licence of which this
Assistant Flight Instructor’s Rating forms a part, the privileges of the holder of an Assistant flight
Instructor’s Rating shall be to impart instructions during flight by day only and under the authority
and supervision of a Flight Instructor, on all types of aeroplanes/helicopters having all-up-weight
not exceeding one thousand five hundred Kgs., and which are entered in the Aircraft Rating of
his licence:
Provided that he shall not authorise any Student Pilot to undertake his first solo flight and shall not
impart instructions in aerobatics and night flying.
With AFIR you can only work as an instructor and gain hours and experience.
Why Choose Garg Aviations
One of the greatest benefits that becoming a flight instructor offers is a possibility to continue to learn through teaching, and one of the best ways to learn more is through teaching. Becoming a flight instructor allows you to build your flight hours while getting paid.
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