Other Certificates and Ratings
- A flight instructor certificate or CFI authorizes the holder to instruct another person who is training for a certificate, rating, endorsement or flight review.
- An instrument rating is required to fly under instrument flight rules IFR. This allows the pilot to fly in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC): in (or near) clouds and low visibility. Flying under IFR almost invariably means flying under the direction of air traffic control (ATC). To get an instrument rating, the pilot must learn how to control the aircraft using only instruments and how to operate within the national airspace system (NAS), and gain a better understanding of weather and its effects on the aircraft and its systems. Instrument ratings are issued for a specific category of aircraft; a pilot certified to fly an airplane under IFR has an Instrument Airplane rating.
- A flight instructor instrument certificate rating or CFII.
- A multiengine rating is the most common example of a class rating; it is required to fly an airplane with more than one engine. Both single- and multi-engine class ratings are further divided into land and sea depending on whether the training was in a conventional land airplane or a seaplane. Airplane Single-Engine Land is by far the most common primary rating.
- A flight instructor multiengine certificate rating MEI.
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