Effective flight instruction, especially in ground school, requires an engaged and positive instructor attitude, along with supportive structures like flexible make-up classes and accommodating the pace of all learners.
Flight schools should prioritize hiring CFIs who enjoy teaching ground school and create opportunities for inexperienced or aspiring instructors to gain valuable teaching experience.
Individuals can proactively advance their instructional career by obtaining an Advanced Ground Instructor (AGI) certificate and taking initiative to teach, even by starting with informal tutoring sessions.
One of the hard truths of being a flight instructor is that you are going to lose learners.
They will drop out of flight training when they run out of money or when life gets in the way. It can also happen with ground school—they miss a class here or there or don’t have time to study. More often than not, it is more of a slow goodbye when they become overwhelmed.
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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.
