Operating Technically Advanced Aircraft Keith Mueller, GLSFIA President As an active flight instructor it is our duty to make every attempt to maintain our proficiency and stay current on regulatory and industry changes.  As a professional, we owe this to our students and to the pilots we provide training.  One of the many challenges in the […]

By Craig O’Mara, GLSFIA Director CFI’s generally spend so much of our time preparing students for check rides that the tendency is to view PTS maneuvers as our sole responsibility. But after earning the certificates or rating, we have the opportunity to go “beyond the PTS”.  How many times have you told a student that […]

CFI Tips & Techniques: “Go Arounds” Craig O’Mara, GSLFIA Director Landings seem to be a fairly difficult maneuver for some of our students and they ARE a leading cause of accidents, so we CFI’s spend a lot of time helping our students to perfect them. We spend so much time on landings, and in our […]