Instructor Rating Revalidation Process

BGA Laws and Rules describes the instructor revalidation requirement. Instructors are responsible for ensuring through their CFI that they hold a valid rating.

All CFI's can access their club instructors rating validity via a web-tool. All CFI's are allocated personal log on details and a password. This same web-tool is used by CFI's to revalidate instructor ratings. (Any CFI who has forgotten their login details should contact the BGA office).

How does an instructor revalidate an instructor rating?

Before a rating is due to lapse, the instructor needs to advise his or her CFI whether or not they have met the revalidation flying requirement and the date of their last 5 year refresher course. If the requirement has been met and the 5 year refresher requirement has been met, the CFI may revalidate the instructor for a further 12 months using the web tool.

How does an instructor know when a rating is due to lapse?

Instructors who held a rating before Oct 2009 will find that their ratings will lapse as follows;

Surname              Rating Expires
A-E                       31st December 2010
F-L                       31st March 2011
M-P                      30th June 2011
Q-Z                      30th September 2010

Instructors who first obtained a rating after Oct 2009 will find that their rating will lapse 12 months after it was issued.

Providing the BGA has instructors correct email details, a number of weeks before their rating lapses the BGA will send instructors a reminder email, detailing how to revalidate (ie via the instructor's CFI web tool).

Each club CFI has access to up to date rating validity information via a web-tool.

How does a CFI know when a rating is due to lapse or has lapsed?

The list of instructors on the CFI's web-tool identifies the validation and lapsing date for each club instructor. NB. If an instructor's name does not appear on the CFI's web-tool list, contact the BGA office for advice.

Renewing a Lapsed Basic, Assistant and Full Instructor Rating

Basic, Assistant & Fully Rated Instructors who wish to renew their lapsed rating must, at the request of their CFI be renewed by a BGA Examiner.

Where the required flying experience for renewal cannot be met, in exceptional circumstances and at the request of their CFI, instructor ratings may be renewed by a combination of experience and instructing skills test established by a BGA Examiner.

Renewal of an instructor rating is applied for on a BGA Instructor Form 2.

Instructor 'Year'

All Full and Assistant rated instructors are required by BGA Laws and Rules to carry out a refesher course at intervals not exceeding 5 years and a CFI's standardisation check at intervals not exceeding 3 years. An Instructor having successfully completed an instructor rating issue (Basic, Assistant or Full Rating) shall be deemed to be in year 1 of the 5 year cycle.

As described in BGA Laws and Rules, t he 5 year refresher training and the 3 year standardisation check should be recorded in the instructors log book and signed by the course / checking instructor.

Year 5 refresher training is conducted either by a Regional Examiner, approved CFI or approved Senior Instructor.

Obtaining approval to run Year 5 refresher courses shall be part of the revalidation experience requirements for instructors holding the CFI endorsement. CFI's should seek the advice of their SRE or the National Coach.

Revalidating/Renewing a BGA MGIR Rating

The BGA MGIR is not a stand-alone rating but has a revalidation/renewal requirement. For more information please check the motor gliding section.

Applicability of BGA MGIR Instructing Hours to Gliding Instructor Rating Requirements

With the agreement of the SRE, 5 hours of relevent SLMG instructing may count towards the toal required instructional hours in the Revalidation Requirements table below.