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
Position and GPS guidance disagree near complex airspace, and fuel remains adequate. What is the strongest response?
Stop following unverified guidance, establish position with independent references and assistance, and divert along a route that preserves airspace, terrain, and fuel margins
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
In a turbojet engine, which section is immediately downstream of the compressor?
The combustion section, or combustor.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
After a charging failure, what determines which electrical loads the pilot should retain?
Use the aircraft checklist and the equipment needed for safe flight and landing in the actual conditions, including engine dependencies, instruments, communications, lighting, and configuration needs. Shed nonessential loads without disabling needed capability.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
Several devices connected to one electrical bus fail while equipment on another bus still works. What should the pilot consider?
A shared power-distribution fault may be affecting the failed devices. Use the system diagram and checklist to determine the affected bus and remaining capability rather than assume each device failed independently.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
If automation behaves unexpectedly and cannot be promptly understood, what is the appropriate priority?
Mode confusion must not displace flight-path control. Follow the installed-system procedures and limitations.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What information does a runway holding position sign provide?
It identifies the runway associated with the holding position by displaying the runway designation in white on a red background.
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
Takeoff And Climb: Takeoff and climb procedures enable an aircraft to transition from the terminal to the en-route phase of 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.
