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 takeoff in a single-engine seaplane whose thrust line is well above its center of gravity, what immediate pitch tendency can a sudden loss of engine power produce?
A nose-up pitching tendency as the nose-down pitching effect of thrust is removed.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
How does a turbocharger differ from an engine-driven supercharger?
Both can increase induction pressure; the usual distinction is exhaust-driven versus mechanically engine-driven compression.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
When flying inbound on a localizer back course, should the HSI course selector be set to the inbound course or the reciprocal outbound course for direct sensing?
Set the HSI to the reciprocal outbound course.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What is an aircraft's actual speed through undisturbed air called?
True airspeed (TAS).
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
At night, above what cabin altitude are pilots encouraged to use supplemental oxygen?
Above 5,000 feet cabin altitude.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
Are restricted area times of use listed on a Sectional Chart in local time or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC/Zulu)?
Local
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
Multiengine Operations: Multi-engine flight maneuvers develop aircraft control, coordination, performance awareness, and response to engine failures.
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.
