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
What are some possible hypoxia symptoms?
Hypoxia symptoms include: euphoria, headache, increased response time, impaired judgment, drowsiness, dizziness, tingling in fingers and toes, numbness, blue fingernails and lips (cyanosis), and limp muscles.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
What is the meaning of a single coded identification received only once approximately every 30 seconds from a VORTAC?
Distance Measuring Equipment servicability can be identified every 30 seconds or about every 3rd to 4th VOR identification
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
No person may operate any aircraft that has undergone maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration unless which two conditions are met?
1) It has been approved for return to service by a person authorized under FAR 43.7; and, 2) The maintenance record entry required by FAR 43.9 or FAR 43.11, as applicable, has been made
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
FAR _____ prohibits pilots, and remote pilots, from performing crew-member duties
91.17
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What is meant by the entry in the remarks section of METAR surface report for KBNA?
METAR KBNA 211250Z 33018KT 290V260 1/2SM R31/2700FT + SN BLSNFG WOO8 00/M03 A2991 RMK RAE42SNB42
Rain ended 42 past the hour, snow began 42 past the hour.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
Pilots are encouraged to use supplemental oxygen above what altitude at night?
5,000 ft MSL
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.
