5 Tips for Preparing a Resume as a Pilot You’ve reached the end of your training and are getting ready to interview for your first position with an airline. In order to do this, you need to make sure your resume is top notch. A resume plays a big part in first impressions. To help [...]

6 Tips for a CFI's First Flight With New Students For the new flight student, the first flight can be an overwhelming experience. Many students that come into your office may have never been in a small aircraft before. Even fewer have undertaken an exhaustive training program like pilot training. What can a flight instructor [...]

Flight Instructor Supplies Every CFI Should Have As a job, flight instruction straddles a fuzzy zone between professional pilot and professor. You need to have a flight bag full of goodies to do your job correctly. Some of that stuff you will have been carrying around since day one of your pilot training, while other [...]

5 Ways to Help Flight Training Students Get Past Learning Plateaus   Flight instructors know that learning plateaus are a natural part of learning a new skill. It's happened to all of us at one point during our training. You're progressing fine, until one day you just can't get it. Maybe it's nailing the flare [...]

How to Stay Organized as a Flight Instructor   One of the most challenging parts of being a CFI is also one of the things that flight instructor training doesn't prepare you for—dealing with the constant flow of students. It's incredible how quickly a full flight schedule can make you feel like you're falling behind. [...]

How to Be a Good Flight Instructor - 6 Helpful Tips There's a secret among flight instructors that you might not know. This job is hard. Learning how to be a good flight instructor is incredibly challenging. Most pilots know that flight instruction is often seen as a stepping stone along a pilot's "typical" career [...]