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
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.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
What type of special-use airspace informs nonparticipating pilots of areas with high volumes of pilot training or unusual aerial activity, such as parachute jumping or glider towing?
Alert areas.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
What type of airspace is charted with an "R-" followed by a designation number?
Restricted Airspace
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
Besides lubrication, what useful functions does engine oil provide?
Oil serves several functions, so quantity, grade, temperature, and pressure all matter.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
How does a fluid-based weeping-wing system differ from thermal protection?
Fluid quantity and delivery rate limit endurance; thermal systems have their own energy requirements and limitations.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
According to AIM 7-6-2, a high percentage of near-midair collisions occur below 8,000 feet AGL and within 30 miles of an airport. True or false?
True.
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
Localizer Approach: Localizer approaches provide lateral navigation during the transition from the en-route environment to the terminal area.
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.
