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
Which would be one of the most common weather products used for planning an IFR cross-country flight?
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
What is the correct sequence in which to use the three skills used in instrument flying?
Instrument cross-check, instrument interpretation, and aircraft control.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
Density altitude affects what four factors?
Lift, thrust, drag, power
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
Are pilots permitted to fly below a visual glide slope indicator (when present)?
No. FAR 91.129(e)(3) states: "Each pilot operating an airplane approaching to land on a runway served by a visual approach slope indicator must maintain an altitude at or above the glide path until a lower altitude is necessary for a safe landing."
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What is the "antidote" for the Resignation hazardous attitude?
I'm not helpless. I can make a difference
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
How does an increase in density altitude affect thrust?
Thrust decreases as propellers are less efficient in thin air
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.
