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219 CFI Mock Checkride, Oral Portion – Interview with DPE Jason Blair + GA News

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219 Pilot examiner Jason Blair talks about the oral portion of the CFI checkride. He first discusses reasons people may want to consider getting a CFI, even if they’d never thought about becoming a CFI. He then discusses requirements to become a flight instructor and talks about common items sometimes overlook in preparing for the checkride. He then talks about the checkride and ways to study for it.

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202 My Neighbor Clancy Prevost, 9/11 CFI Hero and Speaking Up + GA News

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202 Max talks about his neighbor Clancy Prevost, the CFI who spoke up about Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20^th 9/11 hijacker. Clancy was a former Northwest Captain who was giving Moussaoui ground school on operating the 747-400. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until Clancy asked him one question, and the change in the tone of Moussaoui’s voice led Clancy to push his superiors to call the FBI.

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Max’s blog: Clancy Prevost, CFI, American Hero
Testimony of Clarence Prevost in the Zacarias Moussaoui Trial
Pilot Spells out Never Forget
Battle of Palmdale

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189 AOPA on Warbirds Adventures Case and its Impact on CFIs, Cirrus Safety Award + GA News

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189 Max talks with AOPA General Counsel Justine Harrison and Jared Allen about the impact of the Warbirds Adventures Case on Flight Instruction. The immediate impact is if you provide instruction for compensation in a limited category aircraft, you need an FAA exemption. The FAA has been asked to interpret how the decision affects other flight instruction. Max receives Cirrus 2020 Safety Award.

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NOVA – Hindenburg: The New Evidence
NOVA – Great Electric Airplane Race
Traveling Salesman Problem Solved for Airports in Every State

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91 Lessons Learned in a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet flying STARs or IFR Arrival Procedures + General Aviation News

91 Lessons Learned in a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet flying STARs or IFR Arrival Procedures + GA News

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Flyings IFR STARS or Arrival Procedures
91 Max talks in detail about IFR Arrival Procedures, also called STARs. These are ATC-coded IFR route for IFR aircraft flying to a specific airport. There are different kinds of clearances you can get on an Arrival. If you’re cleared to “descend VIA” an Arrival, then you can descend at pilot discretion to reach all of the published altitudes for each fix.

Some key takeaways for pilots should be:
1. Read the Arrival charts ahead of time to find all altitude and speed restrictions.
2. Don’t descend automatically on an Arrival unless you been issued a Descend Via clearance by ATC.
3. If you’re not able to make a speed or altitude crossing restriction, notify ATC as soon as possible.
4. When loading an Arrival into your GPS, be aware that you may have to load a transition, even if you’re not flying on a transition, but have been cleared directly to the fix for which the Arrival procedure is named.
5. Use the FLC or IAS mode on the autopilot to meet speed restriction while descending.

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77 Twenty Things your CFI Didn’t Teach You as a Student Pilot, NTSB Report on Air Canada 759 SFO Incident + GA News

77 Twenty Things your CFI Didn’t Teach You as a Student Pilot, NTSB Report on Air Canada 759 SFO Incident + GA News.

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Twenty Things your CFI Didn’t Teach You
Listeners share stories about things they wished they had learned as student pilots, but had to figure out for themselves as Private Pilots. Here’s my list of those items.
1. How to Prepare for a Flight Review
2. Using Clearance Delivery, approach and departure control
3. Complex and High Performance Endorsements
4. Checking Out in Other Airplanes
5. Flying in the Mountains
6. The dangers of flying at Night
7. It Can Happen To Me
8. Flying at Night without a Moon
9. Renting a Plane at another Flight School
10. Planning Entries to Airports with Multiple Runways
11. Managing Descents
12. How to Buy a New or a Used Airplane
13. How to Conduct Flights so Passengers will want to fly with you again — “Fly the plane like you have 100 passengers in back who you want to come back.”
14. What to do if you’re ramped checked by the FAA 15. What to do if you’re given a phone number to call
16. Part 134 ½ charter operations
17. If you’re going to hit something while taxiing, hit something cheap!
18. How to Use Self Serve Fuel
19. How to Hear a weak signal on the radio; what to do when you Center or Approach gets so weak you can no longer hear them.
20. How to disconnect the Hobbs Meter before you fly, and how to remember to Reconnect it after the flight!

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Mentioned in the Show
Cirrus Migration 16 Event – Las Vegas, October 11-14, 2018
AOPA’s Rusty Pilot’s Online Presentation
Private Pilot’s Chronicle blog article – Lost Luggage
Max Interviewed on SimpleFlight Radio podcast
Conducting an Effective Flight Review

Videos
Houston Hobby SR20 Traffic Pattern Accident
Midair Collision: Piper Cherokee vs. Robinson R22 Helicopter

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47 The CFI Shortage – How it Happened and What You Can Do About It – Interview with Jason Blair

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Jason Blair is a FAA DPE, or Designated Pilot Examiner, who gives checkrides to pilots, and he’s also an active flight instructor. He got an early start in aviation, taking flying lessons at age 15, soloing at 16, and getting his private certificate at 17.

Jason talks about the shortage of the CFIs in the flight training industry, how that happened, what some companies are doing about it, and what you as a pilot can do about it. Here’s a link to his 25-page white paper on the subject.

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