Training time with a CFIS counts to your totals, but can't be used as the specific training required for the private or higher certificate or the instrument (and other) ratings. It requires an authorized instructor
and a CFIS is not authorized to provide that instruction.
Not exactly true based on the new rule change. If you are a sport pilot and are going towards the private, the training received from a CFIS may be counted toward the higher certificate.
Credit for training obtained as a sport pilot
Allows all training received from a sport pilot instructor to be credited towards a higher certificate or rating Allows training received from a sport pilot instructor on the control and maneuvering of an aircraft solely by reference to the instruments to be credited towards a private pilot certificate, provided the sport pilot instructor satisfies § 61.412
Here is the source document from the Federal Register
https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...fication-training-and-pilot-schools-and-other
61.109(I)
(l) Permitted credit for flight training received from a flight instructor with a sport pilot rating. The holder of a sport pilot certificate may credit flight training received from a flight instructor with a sport pilot rating toward the aeronautical experience requirements of this section if the following conditions are met:
(1) The flight training was accomplished in the same category and class of aircraft for which the rating is sought;
(2) The flight instructor with a sport pilot rating was authorized to provide the flight training; and
(3) The flight training included either—
(i) Training on areas of operation that are required for both a sport pilot certificate and a private pilot certificate; or
(ii) For airplanes with a VH greater than 87 knots CAS, training on the control and maneuvering of an airplane solely by reference to the flight instruments, including straight and level flight, turns, descents, climbs, use of radio aids, and ATC directives, provided the training was received from a flight instructor with a sport pilot rating who holds an endorsement required by §61.412(c).
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