Can a CFI hold out to the public like this?
Bonus points if you can name the airport in the picture.
Tillamook.
And yes, it’s legal. He’s a CFI advertising flight instruction. If he said, “Want a ride to Seattle? I’ll fly you there!” then it would be illegal. As it is now, he’s only advertising as a CFI, not holding out to the public for general transportation purposes, which would require 135 certificate.
It’s called advertising.
Very resourceful advertising at that.
I wonder just how much traffic he will draw from Craigslist? I personally wouldn’t have thought to go there for my aviation needs.
Hookers ,yes, aviation needs, no. 
You too fast to say. May not be legal.
~Is he charging students?
~Is he a commercial pilot or better?
One not know.
Yo JHEM
Where’s that “boat” of yours? 
Kind of hard to make a living as a CFI if he doesn’t charge.
In order to be a CFI you need a commercial rating.
No. Private Pilot is good for CFI.
**Emphasis **in the below quotes are mine.
From gleim.com/aviation/flight_ground/fgreqs.php
Requirements to Obtain a Flight Instructor Certificate
- Be at least 18 years of age.
- Be able to read, write, and converse fluently in English.
- Hold a commercial or airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate with an aircraft rating appropriate to the flight instructor rating sought (e.g., airplane, glider).
- You must also hold an instrument rating to be a flight instructor in an airplane.
- Receive and log ground training (such as using Fundamentals of Instructing FAA Knowledge Test, Flight Instructor Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep, and Pilot Handbook to learn
- Fundamentals of instructing (FOI)
- All other subject areas in which ground training is required for recreational, private, and commercial pilot certificates and for an instrument rating
- Pass both the FOI and the flight instructor knowledge tests with scores of 70% or better.
- You are not required to take the FOI knowledge test if you
- Hold an FAA flight or ground instructor certificate
- Hold a current teacher’s certificate authorizing you to teach at an educational level of the 7th grade or higher
- Are employed as a teacher at an accredited college or university
- Demonstrate flight proficiency (FAR 61.187).
- You must receive and log flight and ground training and obtain a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor on the following areas of operations for an airplane category rating with a single-engine class rating.
- Fundamentals of instructing
- Technical support areas
- Preflight preparation
- Preflight lesson on a maneuver to be performed in flight
- Preflight procedures
- Airport and seaplane base operations
- Takeoffs, landings, and go-arounds
- Fundamentals of flight
- Performance maneuvers
- Ground reference maneuvers
- Slow flight, stalls, and spins
- Basic instrument maneuvers
- Emergency operations
- Postflight procedures
- The flight instruction must be given by a person who has held a flight instructor certificate during the 24 months immediately preceding the date the instruction is given and who has given at least 200 hr. of flight instruction as a CFI.
- You must also obtain a logbook endorsement by an appropriately certificated and rated flight instructor who has provided you with spin entry, spin, and spin recovery training in an airplane that is certificated for spins and has found you instruction ally competent and proficient in those training areas, i.e., so you can teach spins.
- Use of Flight Instructor Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep book from your first flight instructor lesson to your practical test. We outline and illustrate each flight maneuver you will perform during y our flight training.
- Successfully complete the flight instructor practical test, which will be conducted as specified in Gleim’s Flight Instructor Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep.
[quote]Eligibility requirements
**Flight instructors in the United States must hold at least a commercial pilot certificate. **
Individuals wishing to give instruction in airplanes or powered-lift aircraft are additionally required to hold an instrument rating in the desired category and class. Holders of a sport pilot certificate may obtain a flight instructor certificate with sport pilot rating, allowing them to give instruction for the sport pilot certificate in light-sport aircraft.
All individuals desiring flight instructor privileges must pass two additional written exams (Fundamentals of Instruction, or FOI; and a knowledge test specific to the category of aircraft in which instructional privileges are desired, such as fixed-wing) as well as a practical test.
[/quote]
How the heck did you know that was Tillamook? did you know from just looking at it?
I was never a CFI so I wasn’t sure if you can advertise your services like that. I have never seen CFI’s advertising, and the ad made me suspicious.
Not quite sure this is correct???
CFI for VFR?
CFII for IFR?
At least that is the way I understood the difference between the two???
Just a commercial needed for the CFI. Commercial and Instrument rating for CFII.
Wiki (crazy as it sounds) probably more accurate.
Anytime you charge someone or get paid for flying, you need a commercial ticket.
Which one Allen?
Clearwater’s out of Poughkeepsie, NY:
Pioneer’s out of South Street Seaport Museum in NYC:
Or did you mean one of the “little” boats?
Nah, the one with the trollers 
You can give instruction for free. I used to give my wife instruction for free…
REMINDER: This is an aviation forum.
I said charge for something!
I’ve heard that your wife said that what you knew wasn’t worth paying for!
You need an instrument ticket to hold a CFI ticket for airplanes – doesn’t mater if you’re a CFII or not.
To be a CFII, you need to take a CFII checkride (and have done the FOI written and Instrument Instructor written exams).
You do not have to be a CFI-ASEL to hold a CFII ticket.