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Pitch & Power and the Margin of Error

A recent issue of AOPA’s Flight School Business included this story: FAA Updates CFI Renewal Clinic Guidelines . It referenced the updated advisory circular that covers FIRCs and noted that the FAA added angle of attack (AoA) to the list of core subjects...

Published Sat, Dec 10 2011 6:18 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, CFI, student pilots, angle, Angle of Attack, aoa, attack, clinic, FIRC, Flight Instructor Renewal Clinic, inadvertently, pitch, renewal
A Budding CFI, a New Writer

Editor Note: At least a couple of times each week, someone sends an unsolicited story trying to convince us to publish it. More often than not, the material simply doesn’t fit. It’s either too long, too sales focused or – as happened...

Published Thu, Nov 3 2011 1:47 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, sport aviation, CFI, aviation writers, bedwell, Gordon Baxter, Southern Illinois University, travis, Travis Bedwell
North Dakota Aviation: Front Door to Growth

Lately there hasn’t been much good news about aviation, general or otherwise. Then I went to North Dakota for a story on a one-tech avionics shop halfway between Fargo and Bismarck. A flight school was setting up in the next hangar, an indicator of better...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2011 12:24 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, flight instructors, dakota, commission, Flight Training Assistance Plan, North Dakota Aeronautic Commission, passport
Can Organizing CFIs Help Aviation’s Future?

Flight instructor pay and benefits are an integral component in creating a flight school faculty that reliably provides an education consistent with the investment made by the students they serve. Unfortunately, flight training is at the bitter end of...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, CFI, flight instructors, Flight Schools, Airline Training Center Arizona, collaborative, doubt—collaborative, erau, organizing, Union
Savvy Flight Instructor Now Flies a Kindle

Not long ago I received an e-mail from Greg Brown , one of the many friends made during my time at Flight Training magazine (and Greg, the 2000 CFI of the Year, still writes his popular “Flying Carpet” column for it.) It was a short note to let me know...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 11:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, flight training magazine, Aviation Marketing, CFI, Kindle, Flight Schools, baseline, book’s, book—and, brown, greg, Greg Brown, intructor, savvy, The Savvy Flight Intructor
Women & Aviation: Still No Real Change

As part of the conversation on the AOPA survey on why students drop out of aviation, we got an e-mail from Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D. She had recently completed a two-year research project that led to Teaching Women to Fly , which shares the results...

Published Mon, Jan 3 2011 3:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, Women in Aviation, Flight Schools, AOPA Aviation Summit, Student Pilot Dropouts, 420, barriers, female, Female Pilots, male, penny, survey, teaching, Teaching Women to Fly, women
CPC Training Sets Customer Service Baseline

Customer service, as the AOPA student retention survey recently reaffirmed , plays an important role in the student pilot dropout rate. As anyone who has called or visited more than one flight school can attest, the quality of customer service—good, bad...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 7:29 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, customer service, AOPA Aviation Summit, Pilot Dropouts, baseline, Cessna Pilot Centers, cpc, customer, service—good
Fixing Flight Training: the FT-IEP

Introduced in Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!, the flight training individual education plan, or FT-IEP, can be initiated by students, instructors, or flight schools. It has the potential to alleviate three of the four dropout motivators...

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 2:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention, iep
Fixing Flight Training: What You Can Do Now!

In the overwhelming number of comments to last week’s Aviation Has the CFIs it Deserves , pilots, instructors, and flight school owners clearly confirmed the veracity of AOPA’s survey that identified the leading causes of aviation’s 80-percent dropout...

Published Thu, Dec 2 2010 10:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, AOPA Aviation Summit, fsbn, Student Pilot Dropouts, Student Pilot Retention
Aviation Has the CFIs it Deserves

Called with the dawn of Veteran’s Day to substitute for a middle school special education teacher, I missed the online AOPA Aviation Summit presentation that conveyed the results of its survey of flight training dropouts. I haven’t found the archived...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 10:44 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, CFI, administrators, AOPA Aviation Summit, dropouts, Pilot Dropouts, summit, teachers, to—motivating
Rote is the Route to Prosaic Mediocrity

Flight instructors who can remember the answers that returned a passing score on the Fundamentals of Instruction test they had to take should be able to tell you that Rote is the first of four levels of learning. If they possess a good memory (or they...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 4:27 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, CFI, Future of Aviation, flight instructors, Levels of Learning, Rote Behavior
Ground School Delivers Consistent Quality

Ground school has been—and always will be—the most important part of learning to fly any aircraft. Whether it’s a Skyhawk with steam gauges or a glass-packed Skycatcher, the flying machine itself is just a training aid, the training tool where students...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 4:31 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Sport Pilot, Learn to Fly, CFI, Private Pilot, Cessna Pilot Center, SkyCatcher, Skyhawk, flight instructors, King Schools, student pilots, Part 141 Training, Cessna Flight Training, Part 61 Training
A Complex (Airplane) Question

After reading last week’s post, NPRM Points to Flight Training’s Future , Jason Blair, the executive director of the National Association of Flight Instructors ( NAFI ), called early the morning it arrived in his email box. He was off to DC...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 5:41 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Instructor, CFI, Pilot Training, Mooney, Commercial Pilot, Piper Arrow, Complex Airplanes, Beech Bonanca, Pilot Certification
CFIs Disconnected Between Sport and Private Pilot Training

When talking to him for a previous post, Ercoupe is Affordable Solution to School’s Sport Pilot Needs , Mitch Williams said he had several private pilots with the desire and necessary 150 flight hours who wanted to become sport pilot instructors...

Published Wed, Apr 16 2008 7:19 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, FAA Rulemaking, Flight Instructor, Sport Pilot, CFI, Private Pilot

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