What A CFI Wants You To Know

Shared understanding within a group is often institutional memory, lacks documentation, and is passed down by word of mouth.

A visit to the recent Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show is an annual opportunity to make contacts—and memories.

Class B is among the busiest and most complex in the country.

Becoming a pilot is more than muscle memory.

While it is helpful to have someone with a bigger picture to help you manage situation awareness, it does not abdicate the pilot of their responsibility.

These figures are critical for determining when aircraft inspections are due and how much to bill for a flight.

Weather—specifically the challenges it presents to the inexperienced pilot— may be one of the most misunderstood aspects of learning to fly.

Profiles are created from a debrief of applicants who have taken check rides with a particular DPE.

There is a difference between checking the experience boxes on a syllabus and creating a pilot. Some flight instructors do the latter better than others.

When flight students only memorize information, they run the risk of not being able to explain it, apply it to a given situation, or draw a correlation between events.