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CFI Podcast by MzeroA.com

44 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings

A Good Pilot Is Always Learning

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Episodes

CFI Mock Check Ride

May 26, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MB

In this episode, Jason presents questions that you will find on your CFI check ride. https://www.facebook.com/events/488442953078945/permalink/488442963078944/

Knowing Your Airplane

April 28, 2022 11:00 - 8 minutes - 12 MB

As a CFI, you need to know your airplane inside and out. And, be able to teach it to your Learners.

The Most Valuable CFI

March 24, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MB

How can we increase our value as a Flight Instructor?

Making sure our Learners get the most out of our Flight Lessons

February 24, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB

How do we as Flight Instructors make sure our Learners are getting the most out of each and every lesson?

Traffic Patterns

November 29, 2021 17:42 - 14 minutes - 19.8 MB

How do we help our learners get better with traffic patterns?

The “Time Builder” CFI

October 28, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MB

Why does the “Time Builder” CFI always get a bad rap?

Teaching Mastery

September 23, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MB

How are we, as CFI’s, to teach mastery?

Beyond the ACS

July 29, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MB

How can we teach our Learners beyond the Airman Certification Standards (ACS)

How To Help In An Emergency While Flying With Family and Friends

June 24, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MB

Jason talks about things your passengers / Learners (Students) can do to help you as a pilot during a flight

CFI Mock Checkride

May 27, 2021 14:40 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MB

Jason talks about what to expect on a CFI checkride for you and your Learners.

Mastering Real-World Cross Country Flying

April 29, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MB

How can we teach real-world flying to our students?

Teaching Fundamentals

March 25, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MB

Learn how Jason teaches the basics to build a strong foundation with his learners

The Hardest Thing to Teach In Aviation

February 25, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MB

Today Jason is expanding on the popular video from the Safer Pilot Challenge by sharing key stories and science from the science of learning

Teaching Cross Countries from the ACS

November 04, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes - 8.8 MB

How do we get better as CFI’s teaching cross countries from the ACS?

Becoming a Certificated Flight Instructor

October 07, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 11.7 MB

What are some of Jason’s best tips to becoming a flight instructor?

Teaching X-wind Landings

August 31, 2020 19:04 - 14 minutes - 14.8 MB

What is one of the best ways to teach cross wind landings?

Student Landings

July 29, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 11.8 MB

Should we let our students bounce in a landing?

Teaching Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)

June 24, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes - 9.99 MB

What’s the best way to teach IFR to a student?

Mock Check Ride

May 27, 2020 11:00 - 13 minutes - 13.3 MB

If I had to pick a favorite check ride, as weird as it sounds, it would be the CFI check ride…

Teaching Personal Minimums

April 29, 2020 11:00 - 15 minutes - 16.7 MB

Teaching Personal Minimums is one of the best things you can do early in your students training.

A Deeper Dive into American Airlines 965

March 25, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutes - 22 MB

Experience does not make you immune to accidents…

Students Age

April 07, 2019 11:00 - 10 minutes - 12 MB

Does your students age really matter?

Evaluation vs Critique

March 01, 2019 23:00 - 12 minutes - 14.2 MB

What is the difference between an evaluation and a critique and which is more effective?

Working with Rusty Pilots

January 02, 2018 11:00 - 10 minutes - 12.6 MB

What should we look for when flying with rusty pilots?

Teaching Landings

December 16, 2017 11:00 - 11 minutes - 14.8 MB

What does it take to teach great landings?

Teaching the Art of Chair Flying

July 22, 2017 02:12 - 12 minutes - 14.5 MB

What are some of the finer points of chair flying and why should we encourage our students to practice as often as possible?

Defense Mechanisms

June 20, 2017 14:59 - 17 minutes - 18.9 MB

What are defense mechanisms and what do we do once we recognize a defense mechanism in one of our students?

Scenario Based Training / Testing

March 21, 2017 19:50 - 14 minutes - 16.8 MB

The FAA is using a lot of scenario based testing. How can we help our students in a scenario based way?

Flight Reviews

February 07, 2017 22:09 - 14 minutes - 16.4 MB

Is giving a flight review a one size fits all? What are some of the common pitfalls of pilots looking to stay current?

Spins

February 01, 2017 03:00 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MB

If you’re working on your CFI, you’ll have to do them. If you’re already a CFI, you may have to teach them.

Teaching Weather

January 09, 2017 23:23 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

How can we help students better understand complex subjects like textual and physical weather?

How to Teach the ACS

June 20, 2016 20:17 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MB

With the FAA’s implementation of the ACS, how can we as CFI’s teach it?

Why Hasn’t This Student Soloed?

March 11, 2016 22:15 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

We’ve all dealt with that difficult to solo student. But, is that a reflection of their CFI?

Staying Proficient as a CFI.

December 28, 2015 09:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB

Even CFI’s can become rusty pilots.

Giving Students Criticism

December 03, 2015 03:34 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB

As a CFI, its hard to give a student constructive criticism sometimes.

Teaching Stalls

September 25, 2015 22:45 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB

How do we work with someone who has anxiety towards stalling?

The Art of Spinning

August 26, 2015 17:30 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

Spins are required to become a CFI, but when is the last time you or your CFI even did a spin?

Aviation Etiquette

August 15, 2015 16:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB

In this episode of the Certificated Flight Instructor Podcast, Jason talks a little bit about Aviation Etiquette for you as a CFI and for your students.

When to Fire a Student

August 06, 2015 02:52 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

It can be an awkward situation to have to let a student go. Jason shares with you 3 types of personalities he watches for that almost always have to be fired as a student.

Share the Workload with your Student

July 27, 2015 13:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB

In this episode, Jason shares with you things he does for his students and things he makes each and every student do.

The Best CFI I’ve Ever Had

July 13, 2015 13:56 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

In this podcast Jason shares his story about the best CFI he ever had and what were some of the things she did to make his flight training the best.

The Greatest Teaching Method

July 07, 2015 14:02 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

In this episode Jason shares with you a few tips that you won’t learn from your FOI (Fundamentals of Instruction) written test.

Creating Lesson Plans

June 30, 2015 17:53 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MB

In this weeks episode of the CFI Podcast Jason reveals to you some of his secrets and tips for creating great CFI lesson plans.

What Makes a Great CFI

June 12, 2015 23:10 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

In this episode listen to Jason as he explains what makes a great flight instructor.