Under the new regulation, flight training providers must hold an FAA certificate and obtain and use a Flight Training Security Program (FTSP) portal account. [StockSnap/Pixabay]
Key Takeaways:
All actively engaged CFIs will soon be required to have a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provider account, expanding on previous requirements that only applied to non-U.S. citizen students.
Effective November 1, this new regulation mandates that flight training providers hold an FAA certificate and obtain a Flight Training Security Program (FTSP) portal account.
Refresher TSA security awareness training will now be required every 24 months instead of annually, and CFIs must continue to verify U.S. citizen students' identification, provide logbook endorsements, and retain these records for five years.
CFIs who are actively engaged in flight training will soon be required to have a Transportation Security Administration provider account.
In the past, this requirement only applied for training providers who provided instruction for non-U.S. citizen students. This change becomes effective when interim rule 14 CFR 1552 becomes a final rule November 1.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
