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5/26/2022 • 15 minutes, 8 seconds
Knowing Your Airplane
As a CFI, you need to know your airplane inside and out. And, be able to teach it to your Learners.
4/28/2022 • 8 minutes, 43 seconds
The Most Valuable CFI
How can we increase our value as a Flight Instructor?
3/24/2022 • 17 minutes, 45 seconds
Making sure our Learners get the most out of our Flight Lessons
How do we as Flight Instructors make sure our Learners are getting the most out of each and every lesson?
2/24/2022 • 17 minutes, 33 seconds
Traffic Patterns
How do we help our learners get better with traffic patterns?
11/29/2021 • 14 minutes, 27 seconds
The “Time Builder” CFI
Why does the “Time Builder” CFI always get a bad rap?
10/28/2021 • 15 minutes, 3 seconds
Teaching Mastery
How are we, as CFI’s, to teach mastery?
9/23/2021 • 11 minutes, 40 seconds
Beyond the ACS
How can we teach our Learners beyond the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)
7/29/2021 • 17 minutes, 26 seconds
How To Help In An Emergency While Flying With Family and Friends
Jason talks about things your passengers / Learners (Students) can do to help you as a pilot during a flight
6/24/2021 • 11 minutes, 5 seconds
CFI Mock Checkride
Jason talks about what to expect on a CFI checkride for you and your Learners.
5/27/2021 • 18 minutes, 39 seconds
Mastering Real-World Cross Country Flying
How can we teach real-world flying to our students?
4/29/2021 • 19 minutes, 3 seconds
Teaching Fundamentals
Learn how Jason teaches the basics to build a strong foundation with his learners
3/25/2021 • 12 minutes, 37 seconds
The Hardest Thing to Teach In Aviation
Today Jason is expanding on the popular video from the Safer Pilot Challenge by sharing key stories and science from the science of learning
2/25/2021 • 14 minutes, 14 seconds
Teaching Cross Countries from the ACS
How do we get better as CFI’s teaching cross countries from the ACS?
11/4/2020 • 8 minutes, 29 seconds
Becoming a Certificated Flight Instructor
What are some of Jason’s best tips to becoming a flight instructor?
10/7/2020 • 11 minutes, 27 seconds
Teaching X-wind Landings
What is one of the best ways to teach cross wind landings?
8/31/2020 • 14 minutes, 19 seconds
Student Landings
Should we let our students bounce in a landing?
7/29/2020 • 11 minutes, 52 seconds
Teaching Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
What’s the best way to teach IFR to a student?
6/24/2020 • 9 minutes, 54 seconds
Mock Check Ride
If I had to pick a favorite check ride, as weird as it sounds, it would be the CFI check ride…
5/27/2020 • 13 minutes, 30 seconds
Teaching Personal Minimums
Teaching Personal Minimums is one of the best things you can do early in your students training.
4/29/2020 • 15 minutes, 57 seconds
A Deeper Dive into American Airlines 965
Experience does not make you immune to accidents…
3/25/2020 • 19 minutes, 18 seconds
Students Age
Does your students age really matter?
4/7/2019 • 10 minutes, 15 seconds
Mock Check Ride
5 actual CFI check ride questions
4/5/2019 • 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Evaluation vs Critique
What is the difference between an evaluation and a critique and which is more effective?
3/1/2019 • 12 minutes, 33 seconds
Working with Rusty Pilots
What should we look for when flying with rusty pilots?
1/2/2018 • 10 minutes, 35 seconds
Teaching Landings
What does it take to teach great landings?
12/16/2017 • 11 minutes, 46 seconds
Teaching the Art of Chair Flying
What are some of the finer points of chair flying and why should we encourage our students to practice as often as possible?
7/22/2017 • 12 minutes, 49 seconds
Defense Mechanisms
What are defense mechanisms and what do we do once we recognize a defense mechanism in one of our students?
6/20/2017 • 17 minutes, 3 seconds
Scenario Based Training / Testing
The FAA is using a lot of scenario based testing. How can we help our students in a scenario based way?
3/21/2017 • 14 minutes, 29 seconds
Flight Reviews
Is giving a flight review a one size fits all? What are some of the common pitfalls of pilots looking to stay current?
2/7/2017 • 14 minutes, 31 seconds
Spins
If you’re working on your CFI, you’ll have to do them. If you’re already a CFI, you may have to teach them.
2/1/2017 • 9 minutes, 27 seconds
Teaching Weather
How can we help students better understand complex subjects like textual and physical weather?
1/9/2017 • 15 minutes, 5 seconds
Teaching Personal Minimums
How can you teach someone better decision making skills?
8/14/2016 • 13 minutes, 22 seconds
How to Teach the ACS
With the FAA’s implementation of the ACS, how can we as CFI’s teach it?
6/20/2016 • 10 minutes, 41 seconds
Why Hasn’t This Student Soloed?
We’ve all dealt with that difficult to solo student. But, is that a reflection of their CFI?
3/11/2016 • 12 minutes, 47 seconds
Staying Proficient as a CFI.
Even CFI’s can become rusty pilots.
12/28/2015 • 13 minutes, 21 seconds
Giving Students Criticism
As a CFI, its hard to give a student constructive criticism sometimes.
12/3/2015 • 15 minutes, 48 seconds
Teaching Stalls
How do we work with someone who has anxiety towards stalling?
9/25/2015 • 11 minutes
The Art of Spinning
Spins are required to become a CFI, but when is the last time you or your CFI even did a spin?
8/26/2015 • 13 minutes, 42 seconds
Aviation Etiquette
In this episode of the Certificated Flight Instructor Podcast, Jason talks a little bit about Aviation Etiquette for you as a CFI and for your students.
8/15/2015 • 15 minutes, 46 seconds
When to Fire a Student
It can be an awkward situation to have to let a student go. Jason shares with you 3 types of personalities he watches for that almost always have to be fired as a student.
8/6/2015 • 25 minutes, 47 seconds
Share the Workload with your Student
In this episode, Jason shares with you things he does for his students and things he makes each and every student do.
7/27/2015 • 19 minutes, 47 seconds
The Best CFI I’ve Ever Had
In this podcast Jason shares his story about the best CFI he ever had and what were some of the things she did to make his flight training the best.
7/13/2015 • 17 minutes, 43 seconds
The Greatest Teaching Method
In this episode Jason shares with you a few tips that you won’t learn from your FOI (Fundamentals of Instruction) written test.
7/7/2015 • 17 minutes, 3 seconds
Creating Lesson Plans
In this weeks episode of the CFI Podcast Jason reveals to you some of his secrets and tips for creating great CFI lesson plans.
6/30/2015 • 15 minutes, 30 seconds
What Makes a Great CFI
In this episode listen to Jason as he explains what makes a great flight instructor.