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CFI Pilot · Airplane

Flight Instructor

Airplane

Fundamentals of instructing, endorsements, the demonstration stalls, and spins — every maneuver retaught from the right seat. All 168 chapters written.

$79 / month at launch · free while we build

168 chapters

What’s in it

7 areas · 168 chapters

  1. IFundamentals of InstructingHow people learn, how you teach
  2. II · IIITechnical SubjectsEndorsements, logbooks, teaching the knowledge
  3. IV · VThe Preflight LessonThe maneuver lesson and ground teaching
  4. VI · VIITakeoffs & LandingsTeaching every variant from the right seat
  5. VIII · IXManeuversFundamentals through eights on pylons
  6. X · XIStalls, Spins & InstrumentsThe demo stalls, real spins, instrument basics
  7. XII · XIVEmergencies & PostflightTeaching the engine-out, securing the airplane

Read one chapter

This is the opening of a real chapter, rendered from the same file members read.

FI.I.A.K1Flight Instructor

Human behavior and effective communication

The chapter continues for members.

Hear one checkride question

In oral prep you answer this out loud, in your own words, and the grader scores it against these points.

Checkride question · FI.I.A.K1

Your new student seems bright but shuts down every time you correct them in the airplane. What's going on and what do you do about it?

What the grader listens for

  • Threatened self-concept produces defensiveness, not stupidity
  • Debrief on the ground; describe behavior, not the person
  • Check Maslow — unmet lower needs cap learning capacity
  • Defense mechanisms are reduced by lowering threat, not by argument
  • Safety to fail is what converts error into learning

Ref · AIH Ch. 1, Ch. 2

Everything above, for every chapter.

168 chapters, the daily quiz, the task tests, and oral prep for the whole rating. Free during the preview; $25 a month at launch. Your progress keeps.

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Everything else in this course rests on one premise: you cannot teach a person you do not understand, and you cannot transfer an idea you cannot communicate. Area I Task A is where the examiner finds out whether you believe that or merely memorized it.

Human needs come before learning

Maslow matters to a CFI for one practical reason: learning lives near the top of the hierarchy, and a student cannot attend to it while a lower level is unmet .

  • Physiological — rest, food, health.
  • Security — physical and financial safety.
  • Belonging — acceptance by the group, including by you.
  • Esteem — recognition, self-respect.
  • Self-actualization — growth for its own sake, where flight training ideally lives.

The cockpit translation: a student who slept four hours, is worried about affording the next block of lessons, or feels like an outsider at the flight school will underperform for reasons that have nothing to do with aptitude — and no amount of re-teaching the maneuver fixes a Maslow problem.