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My neighbor Bob was fond of saying, “The best gift you can give is a gift that keeps on giving.” I always thought this was a profoundly significant statement, until...

Any activity, regardless of its complexity, can be dissected into smaller, easily learned parts. This is what got me through dance lessons and it would for you, too. “One, two,...

Airplanes with side-by-side seating offer instructors a wonderful opportunity to apply a unique teaching technique. Your seating proximity allows you access not only to your student’s flight controls, but to...

Preflighting an airplane can often become a mundane activity. And students are especially susceptible to this when, after many successive preflights, they fail to find anything wrong with their airplanes....

No written word nor moral plea Can teach our students what they should be, Nor all the books upon the shelves But what the teachers are themselves.   In the...

Here’s the best advice that I can give you in preparation for your CFI checkride. Show up prepared to teach. If the designee/inspector is doing his or her job, then...

A friend recently took his first flight lesson at a Midwest flight school and paid $400 for 1.2 hours of dual instruction. Shocked? That’s what it cost him for a...

Doing and getting more with less!    This link takes you to a page where you can download a PDF of the FAA’s original private pilot syllabus published in 1971. This...

Why parents should let their children fly! Suppose I told you I could get your child to enthusiastically study geography, math, physics, chemistry, and psychology. After you had my head...