Following on to my post about the Florida FSDO's no longer validating Ground Instructor ratings and referring it out to DPE's...
I got quoted $100 to have a DPE validate my AGI/IGI/FOI results... I feel like that's kind of steep for 20-30 minutes of their time just to have them look at some paperwork... I'd travel to him and he'd be squeezing me in between 2 other checkrides so its not like I'm really asking him to take time out of his day/schedule since it would be downtime anyway...
I know somebody posted in my previous thread they paid $60 but were quoted $110 originally. I feel like $60 is reasonable.
Any thoughts on whether $100 is reasonable? What would you (the general POA audience) pay? Is it worth getting them validated?
I've heard that having your ground ratings issued can sometimes make the CFI checkride easier as it relates to FOI but considering I'll probably still have a temporary certificate and it'll show up in IACRA as only being 2-5 weeks since issuance, I'm guessing it probably wont do anything for me and I guess I could wait until I go for my CFI-initial and have the DPE validate them all at once for one fee.
Any other ground instructor's have thoughts on the value of getting them validated ahead of a CFI-Initial even if they aren't going to be used before then?
I got quoted $100 to have a DPE validate my AGI/IGI/FOI results... I feel like that's kind of steep for 20-30 minutes of their time just to have them look at some paperwork... I'd travel to him and he'd be squeezing me in between 2 other checkrides so its not like I'm really asking him to take time out of his day/schedule since it would be downtime anyway...
I know somebody posted in my previous thread they paid $60 but were quoted $110 originally. I feel like $60 is reasonable.
Any thoughts on whether $100 is reasonable? What would you (the general POA audience) pay? Is it worth getting them validated?
I've heard that having your ground ratings issued can sometimes make the CFI checkride easier as it relates to FOI but considering I'll probably still have a temporary certificate and it'll show up in IACRA as only being 2-5 weeks since issuance, I'm guessing it probably wont do anything for me and I guess I could wait until I go for my CFI-initial and have the DPE validate them all at once for one fee.
Any other ground instructor's have thoughts on the value of getting them validated ahead of a CFI-Initial even if they aren't going to be used before then?
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