CFI!

[CAFFEINE]

Howdy everybody. Just wanted to announce that I passed my initial CFI today! About a 3 hour oral and a 1.6 hour flight. Now on to CFII (this summer) and MEI (this fall).

[PacMan4x4]

Rock on CAFF....how about some gouge from your checkride (oral and flight). Look forward to reading. Good luck with the next two.

[CAFFEINE]

Thanks Pac Man! I can give you a brief rundown. This was with the Fargo FSDO.

Oral:
Lots of stuff…I’ll probably leave some stuff out, but here were the big subject areas:
-Lots on ADM. Seemed to be a big emphasis area. Be familiar with AC 60-22 and be able to teach it all.
-Weight and balance. I didn’t have a lesson plan for this, so it was kind of shooting from the hip. Not a huge deal, just know WHY stability/performance/stall speed change with CG location.
-Pretty much all the FOI. Special emphasis on learning plateaus.
-Endorsements and pilot limitations. Also incorporated aeronautical experience requirements for private pilots.
-Additional endorsements - flight review (scenario based) and high performance and complex endorsements.
-MELs.
-High altitude operations.
-Spins. Know it all, be able to teach it.
-Taught lesson plan on steep turns.
-Know the special emphasis areas from the private/commercial/cfi PTS. I have made a point to incorporate these items (as appropriate) into my lessons, he was pretty impressed with this.
-Taught prop and gear systems. Have diagrams available, it really helps.

Flight:
-Taught fundamentals of flight on the way to the practice area.
-First maneuver was chandelles.
-Steep turns – critiqued his performance.
-Elevator stall.
-Power off stall.
-Steep spiral.
-Emergency gear extension procedure.
-Eights on pylons.
-Normal landing.
-Short field takeoff.
-Short field landing.

Like I said before, there was probably more, but this is everything I can think of off the top of my head. Hope this helps, if anybody has specific questions, let me know.

[Aero_Engineer]

Congrats!!

[caliginousface]

Nice! Way to go!

[CAFFEINE]

Thanks everybody!

[Ian J]

Congrats dude... I know that's a really good feeling to have that one behind you.

[BrettInLJ]

Originally Posted by CAFFEINE

Howdy everybody. Just wanted to announce that I passed my initial CFI today! About a 3 hour oral and a 1.6 hour flight. Now on to CFII (this summer) and MEI (this fall).

Congratulations. Are you going to be working as a CFI before your II/MEI? Also, you should be able to get the add-ons finished up a lot quicker than that if you are current. Are you just saving up money right now?