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Hey Instructors. Last month I picked up a student that had his own plane and I’ve been working with him for about few weeks now and he said I just need to get my landings done. He was proficient in 61.87D so we just rep the pattern. He solod today which was my first student to sign off so that was cool. I haven’t made a syllabus or looked one up since it was clear we just needed to rep that pattern but now that he’s solo I’d like to ask for some structure. He has his own plane like I said so sometimes he just wants to do leisure flying and I’m cool with that. Here is my plan to get him ready for CR.

He will solo in the pattern again maybe 1.0. Then we’ll go out and make sure he can get to and from practice area ok. Then he’ll solo out there and do maneuvers then come back. He’ll be around 3 hours of solo at this point. Then we’ll start working on XC work and get him to do 1 50m xc then his 150m xc and make sure he gets 5.0 there. Then once that is covered. Well do all the night stuff then practice performance landings and takeoffs until he is prepped to take the test and he can get the rest of his hours practicing maneuvers or pattern work.

Thoughts on this? TIA

Hi everyone, recently got the new 17 and have had it for a month now. I used my tap to pay on my phone this morning and it worked as normal. Went to use it in the afternoon and tried it at multiple places and no luck. It just wasn’t going through. Anyone have any advice on how to navigate this problem? Thank you.

Hey yall. Recently got a student who had his own piper 28. I got about 20 hours in it with him mainly from bringing the airplane back from where he bought it. I’m a Cessna guy so if you can please tell me all the quirks of the plane that isn’t found in the POH. It’s a Cherokee 140D model with the trim on the ceiling like a disco ball lol. It has steam gauge for mph and g5 with knots. What do you guys use for short field ldg, soft field, VG, emergency descent ( flaps or no flaps?) PSI for the tires, just random stuff. Thanks yall

Hey yall! I’m getting an opportunity to fly from an airport near Dallas all the way back to NJ. My client has purchased and aircraft and I will be with him to bring the plane back to its home. Obviously direct is fastest, but wanted to reach out on here and ask if there are any cool places we should stop at and or airports to check out aswell. We’re aiming for a 2 day trip total. We are flying a piper Cherokee 140 with 160HP. Thanks!

Hey yall! I’m getting an opportunity to fly from an airport near Dallas all the way back to NJ. My client has purchased and aircraft and I will be with him to bring the plane back to its home. Obviously direct is fastest, but wanted to reach out on here and ask if there are any cool places we should stop at and or airports to check out aswell. We’re aiming for a 2 day trip total. We are flying a piper Cherokee 140 with 160HP. Thanks!

Hey all, was able to get scheduled with Greg Hill to finish my discontinuance for my CFII flight. He told me some approaches we will do. Wanted to reach out to anyone who has had recent experience with him and ask what he is big on.

Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, recently got hired at a flight school and they only have 1 plane. It is a 1963 c172D. It was refitted with dual g5 and has a g430 with waas. Was doing some digging and found that the g5 don’t allow the plane to be certified for imc nor is the plane rates for IFR. It still has everything in the plane to shoot approaches and everything so was wondering if I can do my cfii in it? It’s late night thought, I’ll dive into the regs deep tmr and find out just wanted to ask y’all. Thanks

Hey y’all me again, wanna get some insight on a flight review as a newly minted CFI. I understand FR are to make sure the pilot is proficient in most of not all areas to be good to fly. Now, doung the ground portion is it supposed to be like a checkride style? Where they can lookup info and whatnot and I don’t teach/say anything or is it more of a conversation? Same thing for the flight. I would hold them to acs but do you guys allow for re try on certain maneuvers or is it cut and dry kinda thing? I would say they get a second try for most stuff as-long as they can prove they are safe. Looking for genuine feedback cause I don’t want to sign someone off if they could be a safety hazard of course. Thanks y’all!

Hey all, looking for advice to understand students and how to ease them into flight training and build on blocks of learning. I just got my CFI a few weeks ago and got a job instructing. I’ve had only disco flights so far and 3/4 people really were excited to fly. I showed them steep turns and slow flights and additionally ( lmk ur thoughts on this plz cause I’ve been debating this) showing how much time you have in the plane when you lose an engine. Pitching for vg and flying the plane down.

3/4 people liked me showing them that you have so much time and don’t fall out of the sky. The other guy was scared once we took off. We didn’t do steep turns or power idle. I tried getting him to do steep turns as he wanted to get his PPL and j told him hey man we have to do these maneuvers for your test so it’s best to see if your comfortable at 45* bank and he said nah so I was like okay we’ll build up from 20-30-45 etc. the guy even on normal turns would legit lean onto me in the opposite direction of the turn. We would turn left and he would genuinely lean to the right on me. Didn’t laugh it was just different. And that’s something I have to get used to. What do you guys do for disco flights? We don’t have much in the area to show.

I instruct at a 61 school and after a disco flight today i went over to a guy preflighting a sling Lsa, he was on the phone with the owner and I was able to talked to the owner of the plane and he offered mea job as an independent contractor. We talked for a good hour and he asked me how I would structure flights and when would they solo, when would I introduce pattern work. I said when they can demonstrate proficiency in all the maneuvers since they all come together in the pattern. Anyways the one flight school I work at uses Jepson PPL syllabus but if I also do the independent route what would you guys recommend to use for flight training syllabus aswell as an app or website to keep track of the students progress.

Yes I want to build hours to airlines but in the meanwhile as a CFI I want to be the best I can be. Thank you!

So I was just driving around today and at first I thought it was another EN then I saw the sharper lines and sleek roof. Anyways couldn’t grab a pic but it was pretty damn cool seeing it in the wild for the first time. Didn’t know they started selling them. Anyone got info on these things? It looked sweet

Hey everyone. I recently passed my CFI. I’m very proud to say I impressed my Dpe and on the day of receiving my cert he asked me if I wanted to work for his flight school. I jumped on the opportunity right away knowing the job market and I don’t have much money left for CFII.

They have 1 plane and I’ve already been checked out in it. It’s an older 63’ 172 but flies great. The problem I’m having with this flight school is the pricing and structure for students. They have told me they charge a flat rate of the plane for 245 including instructor. I asked what about when they solo’ “ you are still there so they are paying for your time and, We have found they are more willing to ask for help if it’s not more money. “ that is what the owner has told me. I did both 61 in HS and 141 to finish my certs. I would feel getting ripped off if I had to pay the instructor rate while I solo.

Just doesn’t feel right to me but knowing there’s no other jobs out there right now I’m not entirely sure what to do. It does seem like the school isn’t that busy and they hired me to get them going and everything so maybe I can tell them by splitting the cost student retention may be higher. What are your thoughts? What would you do?