CFI Notebook
CFI Notebook
The Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Notebook provides "Higher" education, bridging the gap between flight training and the airplane, enhancing your aeronautical experience with articles, multimedia, lessons, and references.
Get into it by reading our notebook articles or following along with our lesson plans.
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The CFI Notebook is an instructor's guide to navigating the sea of resources to provide helpful guidance for their students and themselves. Our notebook aims to enhance pilots' aeronautical knowledge by explaining various topics and referencing their sources to enable further learning.
Instructors recall this knowledge when building lesson plans. More important than knowledge is connecting the topics so that the student can appreciate the "why" behind the facts.
CFI Lesson Plans
Trivia of the Day
Trivia rolls over daily at midnight, Mountain Standard Time.
Private Pilot Question of the Day
Why does Class E airspace begin at 700 feet AGL around some airports?
It provides controlled airspace for IFR aircraft transitioning between the terminal and en route environments, including aircraft conducting instrument arrivals and departures.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
During a right turn, the inclinometer ball is displaced to the left. Is the aircraft slipping or skidding?
The aircraft is skidding because the ball is displaced toward the outside of the turn.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
True or false: If a restricted area is active and has not been released to the FAA, ATC must route nonparticipating aircraft around it unless authorization and coordination permit operation within it.
True
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What does "NO A/G" mean in a restricted area chart entry?
No air-to-ground communications are available.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
Where can a pilot obtain available landing distance information for LAHSO before flight and while airborne?
Before flight, available landing distance information is published in the Chart Supplement U.S. and the U.S. Terminal Procedures Publications. While airborne, the pilot may request it from ATC; controllers provide it upon request.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What type of airspace extends from 3 NM outward from the coast of the United States and contains activities that may be hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft?
A warning area.
Advice of the Day
Maintain a consistent flight training schedule. Long breaks in any kind of training, but especially aviation, will cause a dramatic loss of progress.
System of the Day
Cabin Heating and Cooling Systems: Cabin Heating and cooling systems provide conditioned air for comfortable operations during various weather conditions
Maneuver of the Day
Soft Field Takeoffs: Soft field takeoffs are used to obtain maximum performance when departing from a soft or rough runway surface
Emergency of the Day
Engine Failure: The total loss of power requires immediate actions which depend upon speed (life) and altitude (life insurance)
Mishap of the Day
ERA14LA450: The NTSB determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a takeoff with the airplane's center of gravity aft of its limit and led the airplane to exceed its critical angle of attack and experience an aerodynamic stall during the initial climb.
