{"id":3326,"date":"2022-03-26T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2022-03-27T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:13:59","slug":"cfi-pass-rates-on-the-rise-correlations-with-past-regulations-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"CFI Pass Rates On the Rise…Correlations with Past Regulations Changes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the data points that stuck out to me this year in the U.S. Civil Airman Statistics<\/a> relates to a continued jump in pass rates on initial CFI practical tests. A test for a certificate that has historically been rumored to have exceedingly high initial test failure rates, the numbers over the past few years have been improving.<\/p>\n

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We can see from the data (as I have compiled it from multiple years of FAA reporting) that the pass rate remained very stable over the past couple of decades, hovering near the 68-69% range for most of those years.<\/p>\n

Since 2019, that rate has been climbing.<\/p>\n

In fact, the pass rate has increased nearly 10% on average over the past three years.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but be curious, why?<\/p>\n

Jokingly, I was talking about this with a colleague and said, “must be the DPEs are all getting easier.” He responded, “how do we know it isn’t just flight training has improved?”<\/p>\n

I guess, it could be either. But it could also be something else all together. IN fact, the timing of the improvement in the pass rates correlates closely with another potential explanation.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the training industry began implementing changes the FAA made with regard to the requirement of use of complex aircraft in commercial, and CFI practical tests and training.<\/p>\n

After this change, applicants for CFI practical tests were no longer required to demonstrate complex aircraft skills on initial CFI practical tests (commercial practical tests had the same effect).<\/p>\n

Now, I am not saying that the requirement to demonstrate complex aircraft somehow made CFI practical tests 10% harder, or that our CFI candidates now would fail more often if they were charged with the task of having to demonstrate proficiency in complex aircraft.<\/p>\n

It might be simpler than that.<\/p>\n

It just might be that the added requirement to use multiple aircraft on a practical test (the CFI), learn more systems, teach more systems, or just the added fatigue caused by dealing with multiple aircraft on a practical test was a factor.<\/p>\n

One might be hard-pressed to detail a causal relationship between this regulatory change, but it sure is corollary. The timing f the regulations change and the change in pass rate sure seems to coincide nicely.<\/p>\n

Thoughts anyone? Could it be this simple? Is it a good or bad thing?<\/p>\n

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