What A CFI Wants You To Know

What if instructors began the process more gradually, helping students more each flight?

CFI Michael Wildes says one of the best tools to train pilots often goes greatly underutilized.

How can you prepare for the mindset of the pilot in the other seat?

As the days get shorter and shorter, CFI Michael Wildes gives you ways to make flying at night easier—and safer.

While glass cockpits would seem to increase safety, CFI Michael Wildes says pilots have to do their part, too.

The debate over the impending Airman Certification Standards begs an answer to this age-old question.

When you decide that you’re ready to learn how to fly, finding the right instructor is crucial.

In the July 28 edition of the Journal of Transportation (JAT), researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University published a study that argued that “a lack of weather knowledge and poor product interpretability may be contributing to the high probability of fatalities in general aviation (GA) weather-related accidents.” Despite all the technological progress we’ve made in the […]

“In instrument training, if you’re not doing something, you’re missing something,” Chris said. Chris was my new instructor, assigned to me for my instrument training. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, until one quiet night we were flying along, and the instructions from the air traffic controller, who called out numbers like […]

“Tom, it’s not bad,” reassures Tom House, the mustached throwing coach of Tom Brady, during Brady’s “Tom vs. Time” streaming series. It’s July 1, 2017, during the NFL preseason, and Brady, armored in his shoulder pads and mixed-matched sportswear, is in Los Angeles working with Coach House to improve his throw ahead of his 18th […]