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*"This is a $65 value," said David St George, SAFE Executive Director. "Think of it as your early holiday gift from SAFE. We're honoring you, our nearly 8,000 members, as flight training professionals. Thank you for helping advance instructor professionalism and advance GA safety."
All current and new SAFE regular members are eligible for an early holiday present: a free year of the prestigious FLYING Magazine e-edition. A one-year e-subscription is normally $65.
To start your free SAFE e-subscription to FLYING Magazine, log into Member Benefits on the SAFE web site. The FLYING benefit is about 2/3 of the way down the member benefits page. If you've forgotten your SAFE member number or password, just use the WordPress reset utility.
FLYING is the most widely read aviation publication in the world. It is written by active pilots, including at least two SAFE members, and covers topics such as aircraft selection, safety, maintenance, technology and avionics.
The free year of FLYING e-edition joins other SAFE benefits and discounts, including comprehensive CFI Liability Insurance and discounts from more than two dozen corporate partners.
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SAFE CFI News and Tips
For Certificated Flight Instructors
New Instructional Aids
If you've been asked about "flying companion" or 'pinch hitter" information for nervous non-pilot passengers, the AOPA Air Safety Institute has a five-part video series just for the nervous companion. Free.
As winter approaches, a 10-question quiz on icing is appropriate. This ASI quiz follows an IFR flight in the northeast. Did you know that icing can occur with temperatures well above freezing? Free.
What is yaw? This ASI 4:10 minute video helps new pilots understand the need for using their feet. Free.
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Critical Path For Foreflight
by David St. George
Flight test applicants often ask if planning and flying with Foreflight (or other EFBs) is acceptable for FAA evaluations. The FAA is very clear that so long as the data is current, EFBs may be used as a substitute for paper charts and docs. DPEs must accept this technology, but applicants must demonstrate full proficiency and EFBs are not a substitute for any installed avionics. The other important caveat is that every applicant must be able to function safely in the case of a failure (have a backup chart *and* calculator). If applicants use their iPad as a primary navigator - ignoring the beautiful panel-mounted equipment - I can almost guarantee your iPad will have a "DPE-induced failure" during your flight test.
Another common problem is that many pilots - applicants *and* CFIs - do not use Foreflight to its full capacity. They "hunt and peck" for tidbits of information and do not use a formal process to comprehensively brief a flight. See this SAFE blog for the "critical path" to get full value from your Foreflight (1/3 off for SAFE members), including all the required items in 91.103.
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What? You Still Don't
Understand The New
MOSAIC Stall Speeds?
| | There are two MOSAIC stall speed limits, a Vs0 of 61 knots for light sport aircraft certification and a Vs1 of 59 knots for sport pilots. Is that confusing, or what? How does it work in practice? | | |
Long-time SAFE sponsor Gleim Aviation has created a free one-page fact sheet to help un-confuse CFIs already struggling to understand the new Sport Pilot Regulations. That new rule creates category Light Sport and greatly expands airman privileges of Sport Pilots. The new category Light Sport aircraft has no weight limit and allows top speeds of as much as 250 knots.
Industry welcomed passage of the new Light Sport Aircraft rules and expects a boost in both new Sport Pilots and existing Sport Pilots ready to explore heavier, better equipped aircraft. SAFE published a blog on the implications of MOSAIC for flight training. Register for our LIVE SAFE webinar on MOSAIC, November 30th at 8pm EST.
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SAFE CFI News and Tips
For Certificated Flight Instructors
Of Interest To CFIs
Texas Southern University's aviation program has purchased seven new Cirrus SR20 training airplanes with Autoland.
The new MOSAIC rules are giving CFIs without current medicals a new opportunity. CFIs sans medical can now provide primary instruction for Sport Pilot students in any aircraft that sport pilots are eligible to fly, like Cessna 172s.
Registration is open for the 37th Women In Aviation conference in Dallas. The March 19-21 event will be at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center.
A wider view of what MOSAIC means for CFIs and all pilots is in 2, four-minute videos on the AOPA web site.
ICAO rejects pilot retirement age increase. cap remains at 65.
An Illinois former CFI who continued to instruct after his certificates were revoked pleaded guilty to 43 charges in the 2022 crash that killed a student. Ex-CFI Philip McPherson II had failed a 77409 checkride more than a year before the accident.
A new and improved NOTAM system is expected in February. The new system comes after the nationwide shutdown of the NAS because of NOTAM system failure.
AOPA's scholarship program, which offers up to 100 scholarships annually to high school students and teachers, is changing its application procedures. AOPA will open the application window twice, first from now until December 31, then from April 1 to June 30. As many as 90 students and 10 teachers are annually offered $10,000 or more toward private pilot certification. Scholarships are largely supported by the Ray Foundation.
Archer Aviation's Midnight electric air taxi, with 6 tilt-rotors allowing vertical or horizontal takeoffs and landings, exhibited at last month's NBAA/BACE convention in Las Vegas. A 7:36 video from AvBrief.com is a walkaround of the prototype eVTOL
New web version of Garmin's Pilot app has new weather planning features, including Future Radar. Free.
The last WWII Tuskegee Airman, George Hardy, died in September at age 100.
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ATC Uses "Magic Words"
Your Student Should Know Them
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by David St George
SAFE Executive Director
A pilot's experience and discipline shows most clearly in the radio phraseology they use. We've all heard a new learner on the frequency struggling through their first attempts with the radio. We should all commiserate with the newbie's word salad, since we've been there ourselves.
But too many CFIs take over radio operation for beginners, depriving them of important knowledge. New pilots need this practice, because ATC phraseology is initially a foreign language. At takeoff, for instance, "ready to go" is often used outside of busy airspace when ready for takeoff, but its use frowned upon in busy metropolitan airspace...To continue reading click Magic Words For ATC.
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How To Be CFI Of The Year
Your Chances Have Never Been Better
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In a press release, the sponsor General Aviation Awards (GAA) committee said that the number of nominations has been falling recently and is encouraging schools, universities, FSDOs and other aviation organizations to identify and nominate those CFIs, maintenance professionals and FAASTeam members who deserve recognition. (Last year's winners shown in photo).
CFI Of The Year and the other award winners are chosen first at the FSDO level, then compete for the national title. The winner of that competition will win a trip to AirVenture, where the awards are officially presented. Among the spoils: a commemorative plaque and numerous gifts from industry sponsors.
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Kenneth Solosky
Master Instructors is honored to announce that Kenneth Solosky of Mineola, New York, has received his Second Accreditation as a Master Ground Instructor. Ken began learning to fly in 1988 and earned his private, instrument, commercial airplane, and ATP ratings at Farmingdale’s Republic-Airport. He is retired from the NYPD Aviation Unit as a Lieutenant & Chief Pilot. In that role he helped lead the Aviation Unit during the September 11 terrorist attacks. He is a ATP-Airplane/Helicopter, Certified Flight Instructor-Helicopter, Advanced Ground Instructor, Instrument Ground Instructor and sUAS Part 107 (drone) Pilot, and volunteers as a FAAST Team Representative for the Farmingdale FSDO
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David McVinnie
Master Instructors is honored to announce that David McVinnie of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has received the title of Master Instructor for the Fifteenth time. Dave is the first Master Instructor to achieve this milestone, which recognizes his more than thirty years as a professional Aviation Educator with this prestigious designation.
Dave has instructed for over 40 years, with 31 of those years based in New Mexico. He is a past CFI of the Year in the Southwest Region and a recently retired Designated Pilot Examiner for the Albuquerque FSDO. He stepped down as a DPE to return to his primary calling as a Flight Instructor and continues to provide insurance-accepted instruction in the PA-46 community. He also provides primary and advanced instruction for aircraft owners.
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Want To Make A Difference?
Mentor New CFIs
Join SAFE's Mentor Connection
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The SAFE Mentorship Connection group needs you - as an experienced CFI -.to help newer CFIs learn the ropes and improve their instructional professionalism. Zoom sessions are on Tuesdays from 7:00 pm Eastern (23Z) and last up to two hours.SAFE Mentorship Connector director Dorothy Schick hosts each meeting.
Weekly roundtable discussions with the CFI Study Group on CFI topics often have prominent guest speakers, most recently CFI Bootcamp's Mike Shiflett. The 20 or so CFIs and CFI-wannabes who attend each study session can get into one-on-one conversations with DPEs.
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