While training for your initial instructor rating, it's a good time to learn how to teach instrument approaches. [Courtesy: Meg Godlewski]
Key Takeaways:
Newly certified CFIs should enhance their marketability by pursuing CFII or MEI ratings, carefully evaluate flight schools for a good fit, and prepare for a demanding role with an initial learning curve and potential fatigue.
Effective instruction involves consistently using a structured syllabus, providing thorough ground briefings, adapting to individual learners' needs, and recognizing when an instructor-learner relationship is not productive.
Professionalism is paramount, requiring CFIs to model good habits, diligently adhere to regulations (e.g., pre-solo requirements, flight reviews), and commit to continuous learning and personal proficiency to improve their teaching skills.
There is something both exciting and a little intimidating when the DPE hands you the temporary certificate for your CFI rating.
You are now an instructor, the person responsible for training new pilots. And although you passed the check ride, there will still be a learning curve as you apply the knowledge and experience you have acquired.
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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.
