Completed my CFI

[tmccaghren17]

I passed my CFI this past Thursday and couldn't be happier, and got hired on at the flight school. About to start work on the CFII

 

[Pilotman83]

Congrats! I'm working on my cfi right now, hopefully will be done soon

 

[DaYooper]

Congratulations!! It's a giant step in the right direction

 

[Houston]

I'm sure someone has said this before me, but I'll say it anyway. You're going to be AMAZED at how much you learn once you start teaching.

 

[drunkenbeagle]

I'm sure someone has said this before me, but I'll say it anyway. You're going to be AMAZED at how much you learn once you start teaching.

Yep. I was amazed I hadn't killed myslelf earlier after teaching for a year.

 

[hook_dupin]

I'm amazed I haven't been fired or arrested.

 

[andre2041]

Congratulations!! I am starting my CFI training in the next couple weeks. It definitely looks like it'll be the most challenging of them all. How long did it take you?

 

[matthew]

congrats!

 

[tmccaghren17]

Congratulations!! I am starting my CFI training in the next couple weeks. It definitely looks like it'll be the most challenging of them all. How long did it take you?

training only took about 2 1/2 - 3 months filled with studying and making lesson plans and teaching practice, waiting for the checkride and weather to workout thats a different story.

 

[So ILL]

Finally got mine done today. Feels good, congrats!

 

[ScorpionStinger]

Congrats to the both of you!

 

[n57flyguy]

training only took about 2 1/2 - 3 months filled with studying and making lesson plans and teaching practice, waiting for the checkride and weather to workout thats a different story.

Can I ask what your "attack plan" was? I am studying for the written exams while I outline FOI material with sources from the PTS.

 

[tmccaghren17]

The School I go to has a really good CFI program so I followed that. But basically I made lessons for every task in the PTS ( for the bullet points I used right from the PTS bullet points that they want to hear). I started with the FOI then Regs then into Technical areas, and finally maneuvers to go along with the flying practice. During all that time while prepping lesson plans, we presents our lessons and taught them to each other in the group to develop the presentation skill. Other than that I studied the oral book, Made sure I could answer every FOI question in the PTS from memory, then just kept practicing teaching lesson plans and talking in the airplane. Also made sure all my resources where labeled and organized so i could quickly reference them. When it was all said and done, I was VERY prepared for the oral. But good luck to you, it was an enjoyable experience for me for the most part. you'll do fine.