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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And here is a Video of how to fail your CFI Checkride
by kimoking December 17, 2009 » Add more comments.
The other day I posted here a list of Top 10 Ways to Fail your CFI Checkride, and today I came across this really cool and absolutely hilarious video depiction of how this one pilot applicant going through his Checkride with an FAA Inspector / DPE did. Here, watch this and let us know what [...]
12 Most Common Mistakes on FAA 8710 form
by kimoking 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 [...]
Careful with Student Pilot and Medical Certificate Expiration Dates
by CFI Academy November 29, 2009 » Add the first comment.
If you are flight instructing at a flight school that deals mostly with full time professional pilot course applicants, like flight safety academy etc, you will probably not encounter the scenario mentioned below. But if you are teaching at flight schools that also train pilots who want to fly for fun, hobby and recreation, which [...]
CFI Expired? How to Reinstate it? Part II
Read the Part I of this series by clicking here. This post is in continuation of the discussion in the previous one. One important document that I missed to mention in the previous post was an FAA Advisory Circular AC61-65E. This document provides additional information on how to reinstate or renew a Flight Instructor certificate, [...]
Can Flight Instructor (CFI) checkride be considered as Flight Review?
We know that all pilots are required to go through a Flight Review each 24 calendar months as required by 14 CFR 61.56 . The paragraph (d) of this regulation states: “A person who has, within the period specified in paragraph (c) of this section, passed a pilot proficiency check conducted by an examiner, an [...]
Practical Risk Management for Night VFR Flight – an FAA Guide
by CFI Academy November 28, 2009 » Add the first comment.
Purpose Flying at night can be very enjoyable, if pilots understand the differences of night flying and take the necessary actions to prepare for a safe flight. This guide suggests ways for flight instructors to teach risk management for safe VFR flying at night. Profile Factors in night accidents often include errors in planning, decision-making, [...]
Your CFI Number does not include CFII or MEI
by CFI Academy November 27, 2009 » Add more comments.
Do me a favor and grab your logbook, and go through all the entries in it, and look for the flight instructor signatures. These are the signatures of the flight instructors who have taught you at some point, for some course, or maybe even covered for another instructor and provided you with dual flight instruction. [...]
