This document addresses the training required for an Air Experience Instructor (AEI) Rating, the privileges and limitations attaching to the endorsement, and to reinforce the advice currently in the Instructor’s handbook. Consistency of training standards for AEIs is important in ensuring that initial experience in gliding and soaring flight includes proper foundations of control, lookout and airmanship.

An Air Experience Flight is an instructional and training flight, even if the participant has minimal or zero control input. The following pages outline the competency based training system for aspiring Air Experience Instructors.

NOTES:

1. Revision 1 sets the minimum qualification to a GPC, and replaces the minimum requirements in the Operational Regulations.
2. Revision 2 aligns the AEI revalidation requirements to Operations Advice Notice No. 01/20 'Flight Reviews' as amended by Operations Directive 02/20 on 3 August 2020.
3. Revision 3 clarifies the power flying credits at paragraph 1.2.
4. Revision 4 revises the privileges and limitations at paragraphs 2.3 and 2.6 following the introduction of the revised GPC training syllabus.