Commercial/CFI on same checkride?

[Propilot]

Can you do the commmercial and the CFI on the same checkride?

Would these two mesh well together? i mean, for cfi your basicly just doing the commercial manevuers from the right seat...

[moxiepilot]

probably not. last i heard, your cfi has to be with the local fsdo, so unless you're doing your comm with them you're not going to fit the 2 together.

2ndly with your cfi expect a long oral and overall grueling day.

just because you can doesn't mean you should....

-mox

[GaTechKid]

At ATP I think we take the commercial single add-on in the morning and then the CFI checkride in the afternoon, but our initial instructor rating is the MEI so....

[gomntwins]

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probably not. last i heard, your cfi has to be with the local fsdo, so unless you're doing your comm with them you're not going to fit the 2 together.

2ndly with your cfi expect a long oral and overall grueling day.

just because you can doesn't mean you should....

-mox

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It's no longer a requirement to take your initial flight instructor rating with a FSDO... so you would have a chance of finding a DPE who may be willing to do it. I really like that last statement though "just because you can doesn't mean you should"... i don't think anybody should do the CFI ride on the same day as another ride... you'd have to start the commercial at 3 in the morning just to leave enough time during the day for the CFI.

[kellwolf]

Local flight school here trains you that way. You learn all the commercial and CFI stuff at once, and you train from the right seat. They figure if you can teach it, you probably know it well enough to pass the commercial checkride.