Flight Instructor

Flight instructors need to get paid like any other professional.

We get a tour of the academy’s flight line to train pilots for FAA certification in the U.S.

There are skills from day-to-day activities that can help you in the cockpit.

The Kings also joined NAFI in recognizing their 2022 scholarship winner.

Niki Gaskins didn’t think she had it in her to be a CFI. She took the plunge, and found her calling.

Learn all about pilot scheduling and salaries.

FLYING staff writer and CFI shares story of a student recruited by an airline right out of flight school.

Former premier of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” If you hold that axiom up to the light, you might think that this uncanny attribution was about the aviation industry. Sometimes the industry inches along like Caribbean molasses; other times, […]

Becoming a flight instructor was the very last thing on my to-do list. If we’re being completely honest, very few pilots decide to do so on their own. So how did I find myself in this position? In 2009, Colgan 3407, a Continental Airlines passenger flight, crashed into a house after an aerodynamic stall. The […]

Everyone has that one teacher that had the biggest impact on their lives, whether it be a math teacher, a social studies teacher—or a flight instructor. If the teacher who had the biggest impact on your life was your flight instructor, we want to hear from you. We want to honor flight instructors through a […]