CFI's Corner
As flight instructors, you are the front line for the training and mentoring woven into aviation. The CFI and DPE work hand in hand to assist the students of aviation in meeting their goals. We at Pilotcheckride.com have dedicated a special area just for CFI's to visit and receive quality, first-hand information you may be looking for prior to your student's checkride. If you have any thoughts or ideas of what you'd like us to add to this area, please let us know! We want to make the entire process easy for your students and for the flight instructors. Of course, if you have a question for the DPE, please click the "Ask A Question" link and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We may even share the question and answer for others wondering the same thing. Thank you in advance!
Hot Topics and PilotCheckride Podcast
Top reasons students fail a checkride? Read our blog here.
Find inside information for you and your students by listening to the PilotCheckride podcast! Click here to go to Spotify, or search PilotCheckride anywhere you listen to podcasts. Have an idea or topic for an episode? Let us know here. We'd love to hear from you!
Proper Logbook Endorsements
PRINTABLE Logbook Endorsements:
Instrument and Commercial (coming soon)
OR
Go to the latest Advisory Circular for all the endorsements...click here
Current FAR Links
FAR Part 61: Certification of Pilots, Flight Instructors, and Ground Instructors...click here.
FAR Part 91: General Operating and Flight Rules...click here.
Recent Rule Changes and Updates to ACS/PTS
The latest Airmen Certification Standards are now in effect as of May 31, 2024. Please use the links for the specific exam ACS under the Pilot Exams tab, or click here. If you or your students have any questions regarding the changes associated with the recent ACS changes, please call your DPE to discuss. Always remember to have a clear idea of what will tested and how the maneuver should be conducted.
Common question from CFI's and also a common contribution to failed check rides has been the proper pattern procedures at non-towered (uncontrolled) airports. Be on the same page with other VFR traffic, and teaching the same information. For a close look at the FAA guidance, please read and review AC 90-66B, or click here.
Shared Questions and Answers
Send us your questions here, and we will provide an answer. We may list them (anonymously) here for other CFI's to benefit from as well!
