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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Many Pilots cum Flight Instructors, when they move on to the airlines business end up letting their CFI certificate expire. And then down the road when a need or the passion rekindles again, they realize that it has to be reinstated. So, the question arises: How do I go about renewing or reinstating my CFI [...]
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 [...]
