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Finding an Advocate in Flight Lessons

Pilot training is a lot easier when a student is working with a CFI who is invested in their success.

When learners are successful in flight instruction, it’s a wonderful experience for both them and the CFI. [Credit: iStock]
When learners are successful in flight instruction, it’s a wonderful experience for both them and the CFI. [Credit: iStock]
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Key Takeaways:

At many flight schools the business model is whoever is available that day and whose schedule matches your own becomes your flight instructor.

Most first-time flight students accept this, not knowing that they can change instructors if it’s not a good fit. They may not know it’s not a good fit unless someone points it out to them. 

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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