FCL.940.CRI CRI – Revalidation and renewal

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FCL.940.CRICRI – Revalidation and renewal

(a)To revalidate a CRI certificate, applicants shall fulfil, within the validity period of the CRI certificate, at least two out of the following three requirements:

(1)conduct at least 10 hours of flight instruction as a CRI. If applicants have CRI privileges on both single-engine and multi-engine aeroplanes, those hours of flight instruction shall be equally divided between single-engine and multi-engine aeroplanes;

(2)complete a refresher training as a CRI at an ATO or at a competent authority;

(3)pass the assessment of competence in accordance with point FCL.935 for multi-engine or single-engine aeroplanes, as relevant.

(b)For at least each alternate revalidation of a CRI certificate, holders shall have complied with the requirement in point (a)(3).

(c)Renewal

If the CRI certificate has expired, it shall be renewed if the applicants in the period of 12 months before the application for the renewal:

(1)have completed a refresher training as a CRI at an ATO or at a competent authority;

(2)have completed the assessment of competence as required by point FCL.935.

IR · FCL.940.CRI — Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 · Regulation (EU) 2019/1747 · Aircrew Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 16 Oct 2026

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REFRESHER TRAINING

(a)Paragraph (c)(1) of FCL.940.CRI determine that an applicant for renewal of a CRI certificate shall complete refresher training as a CRI at an ATO or competent authority. Paragraph (a)(2) also establishes that an applicant for revalidation of the CRI certificate that has not completed a minimum amount of instruction hours (established in paragraph (a)(1)) during the validity period of the certificate shall undertake refresher training at an ATO or competent authority for the revalidation of the certificate. The amount of refresher training needed should be determined on a case by case basis by the ATO or competent authority, taking into account the following factors:

(1)the experience of the applicant;

(2)whether the training is for revalidation or renewal;

(3)the amount of time elapsed since the last time the applicant has conducted training, in the case of revalidation, or since the certificate has lapsed, in the case of renewal. The amount of training needed to reach the desired level of competence should increase with the time elapsed.

(b)Once the ATO or competent authority has determined the needs of the applicant, it should develop an individual training programme that should be based on the CRI training course and focus on the aspects where the applicant has shown the greatest needs.

(c)After successful completion of the refresher training, as applicable, the ATO or competent authority, should, in accordance with point (b), issue the applicant with a training completion certificate or another document specified by the competent authority, which describes the evaluation of the factors listed in point (a)(1) (the experience of the applicant) and the training received, as well as a statement that the training was successfully completed. The training completion certificate should be presented to the examiner prior to the assessment of competence.

Upon successful completion of the refresher training, as applicable, the ATO should submit the training completion certificate, or the other document specified by the competent authority, to the competent authority.

AMC · AMC1 FCL.940.CRI — Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 · ED Decision 2020/005/R · Aircrew Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 16 Oct 2026