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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
