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CFI to teach in a Sea Plane

by November 18, 2010 » Add the first comment.
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So what does it take for a Flight Instructor (CFI) to teach in a sea plane or amphibious airplane? Is there any special or additional training requirements? Any CFI certificate endorsement required? The answer is simple; you are allowed to teach in any single engine airplane for which you hold pilot privileges. Your CFI certificate [...]

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Yohan Bathiya

by January 8, 2010 » Add more comments.
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I have been wanting to write about some of the most determined and focused students that I have ever had in my career as a Flight Instructor teaching new CFI applicants for a while now. There are many, but I have to start off somewhere. So this is the first one of the series. Yohan [...]

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CFI Endorsements required for CFI Checkride

by January 4, 2010 » Add more comments.

Are you ready for your CFI checkride? Has your Flight Instructor given you all the required logbook endorsements for your CFI (initial) checkride? Well, here is your chance to verify just that. You wouldn’t believe how many CFI applicants fail their CFI checkride in the first 10 minutes into it, just because their flight instructor [...]

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Siddharth Srinivasan, First Officer Colgan Air

by December 18, 2009 » Add more comments.
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Dear Prince, I received the best training and support from you in my aviation career. I remember walking into your office on my first day without much of an idea of how this was going to go. I had left my family several thousands of miles away, left a career to start a new one [...]

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What is an Accelerated CFI Training Course

by December 17, 2009 » Add the first comment.

The Accelerated CFI Training Course is a fast paced flight and ground training program where both the applicant and the assigned Flight Instructor dedicate their full time towards one common goal: preparing the CFI applicant to achieve the required aeronautical experience and knowledge levels prescribed within the FARs and the CFI Practical Test Standards (PTS), [...]

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12 Most Common Mistakes on FAA 8710 form

by December 14, 2009 » Add the first comment.

Now is the time to finally go for your check-ride and you, along with your CFI, go over the checklist in the PTS and one of the requirements is a completed 8710-1 form.  Although there is an explanation on what to put in each block, there is sometimes confusion and some how applications still get [...]

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Can I take my initial CFI as a CFII

by December 12, 2009 » Add the first comment.

Question I have heard that I can be a CFII without getting my CFI. Is this possible? Answer Yes you can be a CFII without getting your CFI. In other words, you can be a certified flight instructor with an instrument airplane rating and not airplane single and/or multi-engine rating. Remember, Certified (certificated) flight instructor [...]

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Spin Training for CFI applicants

by December 11, 2009 » Add the first comment.

If you are working towards getting your Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) certificate, one of the requirements to be eligible is to have received and logged training time, in-flight, on stall / spin awareness, spin recognition, spin entry and spin recovery techniques. Refer 14 CFR 61.183(i). This training time has to be logged, and a logbook [...]

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