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
When CTAF follows an airport frequency on an FAA Sectional, what does it identify?
That frequency is the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency for the airport.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
What collision-avoidance responsibilities apply beneath a Class B shelf or while using a VFR corridor?
Pilots beneath a shelf or in a VFR corridor are outside Class B services unless separately receiving them and remain responsible for see-and-avoid, wake-turbulence avoidance, terrain clearance, and compliance with the surrounding airspace rules.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
For IR.III.A.S5 during the Instrument Rating Compliance with Air Traffic Control Clearances task, what must the applicant demonstrate?
Maintain the applicable airspeed ±10 knots, headings ±10°, altitude ±100 feet; track a course, radial, or bearing within ¾-scale deflection of the course deviation indicator (CDI).
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What makes an emergency landing area suitable?
Consider reachable distance, wind, length, slope, surface, obstacles, population and property, approach options, and the likelihood of occupant survival. Select promptly and continue reassessing it while preserving a backup when possible.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
Under 14 CFR §91.407(a), what two conditions must be met before a civil aircraft may be operated after maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration?
Authorized approval for return to service and the required maintenance-record entry.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What does each letter in IMSAFE represent?
IMSAFE stands for Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotion. Each item prompts the pilot to identify a condition that may impair fitness for flight.
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
Touch-and-Go Operations: Touch and go operations allow pilots to practice takeoff and landings for either flight training, currency, and/or proficiency.
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.
