What qualifications does a Qualification Examiner have to have?
A QE has to be currently-certified coxswain, and maintain that basic certification. D1NR requires that a QE-to-be have had at least 100 hours underway as a coxswain prior to appointment, be Instructor qualified (and maintain that qualification), have achieved AUXOP level in training, have taken some form of Auxiliary leadership training, be recommended by the Auxiliary leadership chain, and be filling a geographic need for a QE in a 50 mile radius of the QE-to-be’s home. The idea is that a QE is skilled in Adult Education techniques, has had a high level of Auxiliary training (including formal leadership training), and is, of course, highly skilled as an Auxiliary coxswain. Annually, in addition to maintaining Instructor qualification and Coxswain certification, a QE must have 20 hours or more underway each year. For a QE, this includes both “regular” Coxswain underway time and time spent underway as a QE doing underway check rides or currency maintenance rides. The goal is that a QE m
