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
During a coordinated level turn at a constant bank angle, how does an increase in true airspeed affect the rate and radius of turn?
The rate of turn decreases and the radius of turn increases.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
Why is wake turbulence near maximum behind a jet transport immediately after takeoff?
The aircraft is typically heavy and flying relatively slowly at a high angle of attack, requiring substantial lift and producing strong wingtip vortices.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
In what sequence should a pilot apply the three fundamental skills of attitude instrument flying?
Instrument cross-check, instrument interpretation, and aircraft control, in that order.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
Describe stagnant hypoxia.
Stagnant hypoxia occurs when oxygen-rich blood is not circulating adequately to the body's tissues, such as from reduced cardiac output, shock, or excessive acceleration forces.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
During a taxi turn, how should the magnetic compass indication respond?
The magnetic compass should indicate a turn in the same direction as the aircraft and settle on an appropriate heading after the turn.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
According to the AIM, during which months does bird-strike risk increase because of migration?
March through April and August through November.
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
Ground Procedures: Ground procedures cover the often overlooked but arguably more critical operations required on the front and back side of any flight.
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.
