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The Savvy Flight Instructor: Secrets of the Successful CFI (ASA Training Manuals)
The Savvy Flight Instructor: Secrets of the Successful CFI (ASA Training Manuals)
You’ve mastered the Flight Training Handbook, and wrapped up one of the toughest orals of your flying career. You can now fly and talk at the same time, all from the right seat. You can write lesson plans, enter mysterious endorsements in student logbooks, and actually explain the finer points of a lazy eight. That’s everything you’ll ever need to know to be a flight instructor… No more questions, right?
Yeah, right! If you’re a little apprehensive about where those students are going to come from, and how you are going to teach them, you’re not alone. The Savvy Flight Instructor is designed to help out with all those “other” flight instructing questions, like how to recruit new flight students. And once you’ve got ‘em, how do you keep them flying? How can you optimize your pass rate on checkrides? What are the tricks for getting students to return for their advanced ratings?
Along with tips on how to attract and retain flight students, this book is about professionalism in flight instructing: how to advance your personal flying career by increasing the skills and satisfaction of your students, while promoting general aviation at the same time.
As a newly certified flight instructor (CFI), a pilot can be faced with a difficult prospect-how to make a living and keep flying to build up piloting hours. This book offers timely and humorous help for flight instructors to market their flight school, meet all those people who really want to fly, and keep them flying. Also emphasized is a broader understanding of the business of the flight school, including how flight schools can revamp marketing and student-recruiting strategies.
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Review by Manny Peralta, Chief Flight Instructor for The Savvy Flight Instructor: Secrets of the Successful CFI (ASA Training Manuals)
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> If I were to summarise this excellent little book it would be: ‘Tips on how to
> enjoy being a flight instructor, make money at the same time and NOT rush to
> the airlines, having left a trail of destruction along the way’.
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> I manage a small country flying school in Australia that uses the J-160 and
> J-230 Jabiru LSA’s in its cost-effective internship program, for high school
> students preparing to enroll at university-level airline flight training.
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> Your book has helped in the development and marketing of our services. The
> topics and strategies discussed, when applied carefully, did help to increase
> business growth, despite the global financial crisis. Remarkable, given that
> flight training is based so much on the discretionary income of the
> individual.
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> I recommend that chief flight instructors/operations managers read this book,
> think laterally, and apply its principles.
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> Brgds,
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> Manny Peralta
> CFI
> Inbound Aviation
> Ballarat, Victoria
> AUSTRALIA