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 actions and standards are required to analyze the implications of at least three of the conditions listed in K3a through K3l, using actual weather or weather conditions provided by the evaluator during the Weather Information task?
Analyze the implications of at least three of the conditions listed in K3a through K3l, using actual weather or weather conditions provided by the evaluator.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
How should a pilot use the engine run-up to detect unacceptable ignition-system indications?
Apply the AFM/POH run-up procedure and compare RPM drop, roughness, and other indications with published limits; resolve an abnormal result before takeoff.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
Before flying an unfamiliar airplane or operating unfamiliar flight displays or avionics, what differences and hazards should a pilot assess?
Assess differences in controls, systems, configuration, performance, limitations, normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures, automation modes, data entry and indications, failure modes and reversionary behavior, and the resulting workload, distraction, and mode-confusion risks.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
A surface analysis is valid at 1200 UTC. You plan to cross the depicted frontal zone at 1800 UTC. What does the chart establish?
The analyzed surface pattern for 1200 UTC; obtain applicable later information for the planned crossing.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
Under what flight condition can evolved-gas decompression sickness occur?
Exposure to reduced barometric or low cabin pressure associated with increased altitude
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What must a remote pilot know about aTC towers, such as ensuring the remote pilot can monitor and interpret ATC communications to improve situational awareness?
Pilots operating a single pilot aircraft should monitor only assigned ATC communications after being cleared onto the active runway for departure. Single pilot aircraft should not monitor other than ATC communications until flight from Class B, Class C, or Class D surface area is completed. This same procedure should be practiced from after receipt of the clearance for landing until the landing and taxi activities are complete. Proper effective scanning for other aircraft, surface
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
Aerobatic Flight: Aerobatic flight consists of intentional maneuvers involving an abrupt or abnormal change in an aircraft's attitude or an abnormal acceleration.
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.
