How to report something to the FAA

Diamnd15

Diamnd15

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Hi, I was wondering if its possible and how you would go about to file a report to the FAA. The flight school I had attended pretty much ripped me, and a lot of the other students off. Just recently thought there was an incident where a normal guy came off the street and wanted to learn how to fly. The owner of the flight school at the time I guess was low on instructors so he had a person who just completed his MEI initial, take this pre-private student up for a discovery flight, and then on for more flights adding up to about 11 hours. The problem with this is that the person giving him instruction only had his MEI, and he was signing this student’s logbook as if here were a rated flight instructor for single engine aircraft. So not only was this instructor flying for hire in an aircraft he was not rated for, and also giving bogus instruction to a student who had no idea what was going on, what could be done about this. I would just like to know how to go about of telling the FAA about this kind of situation. And as for the student he pretty much got screwed out of those 10 hours as they don’t count for anything correct. Any help with this situation would be great. Thanks a lot…
 
I'd be appalled, with what it takes to earn a CFI, that this instructor would even play with the law in this respect. For contacting the FAA, I would turn to the safety hotline which FAR-violation falls under.
From FAA.gov:
Safety Hotline
Call our 24-Hour Safety Hotline at (800) 255-1111 to report:

Maintenance improprieties
Low-flying aircraft
Aircraft incidents
Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) violations

I'm not a big fan of "reporting other people" but a) if there is a CFI giving instruction improperly (and you better make sure he didn't really have a CFI-single, i.e. your statement is truly correct) and knows that he's giving improper instructions or b) there is a CFI giving instruction and doesn't know that he's giving improper instruction, thats a problem on both counts, with the student being the victim. Its mostly a legal problem, but multi and single engine aerodynamics are two completely different ballgames.
 
You can look the guy up on the FAA's Airman Certification website to see what ratings he holds. Shouldn't be too hard to find out if there is a problem or not.

While not unheard of, it would be somewhat odd for the guy to have done his intial CFI in a twin. There are some places that do it that way, but generally as part of a program and you wouldn't be instructing until you'd completed the whole course.
 
Diamnd15 said:
Hi, I was wondering if its possible and how you would go about to file a report to the FAA. The flight school I had attended pretty much ripped me, and a lot of the other students off. Just recently thought there was an incident where a normal guy came off the street and wanted to learn how to fly. The owner of the flight school at the time I guess was low on instructors so he had a person who just completed his MEI initial, take this pre-private student up for a discovery flight, and then on for more flights adding up to about 11 hours. The problem with this is that the person giving him instruction only had his MEI, and he was signing this student’s logbook as if here were a rated flight instructor for single engine aircraft. So not only was this instructor flying for hire in an aircraft he was not rated for, and also giving bogus instruction to a student who had no idea what was going on, what could be done about this. I would just like to know how to go about of telling the FAA about this kind of situation. And as for the student he pretty much got screwed out of those 10 hours as they don’t count for anything correct. Any help with this situation would be great. Thanks a lot…
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Damn, that sucks! I would just double check again to make sure, but I would definitely report it.
 
Tiger815 said:
You can look the guy up on the FAA's Airman Certification website to see what ratings he holds. Shouldn't be too hard to find out if there is a problem or not.

While not unheard of, it would be somewhat odd for the guy to have done his intial CFI in a twin. There are some places that do it that way, but generally as part of a program and you wouldn't be instructing until you'd completed the whole course.
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he might have recently got his CFI recently, and it wouldn't show up on the website for a few months.
 
well with this case i do know for sure im that the instructor did not have his cfi single...i guess its just something to really think about now...thanks for the help...
 
You know - when I started flying there was only one CFI ticket. You were CFI for whatever you were rated in.

Wasn't till I finally got to CFI level that they split it in to a myriad of parts (and expensive checkrides!)
 
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