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
Where can a pilot obtain available landing distance information for LAHSO before flight and while airborne?
Before flight, available landing distance information is published in the Chart Supplement U.S. and the U.S. Terminal Procedures Publications. While airborne, the pilot may request it from ATC; controllers provide it upon request.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
How long is an FAA Certificate of Aircraft Registration generally valid?
Seven years from its date of issuance, unless the aircraft's registration ends sooner under 14 CFR § 47.40.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
Regarding restricted airspace, does "TO" an altitude mean "to and including" or "to and not including"?
"TO" an altitude means to and including.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What temperature range is most conducive to clear-ice formation?
Clear ice is most commonly associated with temperatures from 0°C to -10°C, particularly when large supercooled droplets and high liquid-water content permit water to spread before freezing. Clear ice can form outside this range, so these temperatures are favorable conditions, not absolute limits.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What are the two methods used for attitude instrument flying?
The primary-and-supporting method and the control-and-performance method.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
Question unavailable.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What is absolute altitude?
The aircraft's height above the terrain directly beneath it, expressed in feet above ground level (AGL).
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
Ground Reference Maneuvers: Ground reference maneuvers develop the pilot's ability to compensate wind while flying a deliberate path over the ground.
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.
