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Summary: A flight instructor's job description includes working with beginning and advanced students in a variety of airplanes. Understand a flight instructor's job from a certified flight instructor (CFI) in this free video on a career in aviation.
Dorothy Schick is a certified flight instructor and the owner of TakeWING flight school for more than 14 years. She offers flight training and aviation services to obtain...read more
Flight instructors are highly skilled pilots who have special ratings that allow them to teach others how to fly airplanes. A flight instructor prepares students for tests to get a pilot's license and flight certifications. In ground-school classes, flight instructors teach specific flying skills such as how to read airplane instrument panels. Other classes include supervised flying time, where instructors provide feedback and may have students perform the same tasks or maneuvers many times. Simulators or dual-controlled airplanes may also be used as part of the flight instruction. In this free video series on careers, a certified flight instructor (CFI) describes her job as a flight instructor. Get a detailed job description, and learn about flight instructor salary opportunities and the tools used by flight instructors. Weigh the pros and cons of a career as a flight instructor, find out why a pilot decided to become a flight instructor and hear about her hardest days and funniest moments in this free video series on a career in aviation.
"My name is Dorothy Schick, I am a Flight Instructor and owner of Take Wing, a flight school at Creswell Airport, in Eugene, near Eugene Oregon. A Pilot is someone who manages multiple tasks at once and all while doing that in the air, carrying either passengers or cargo or students, as my case may be. We try to do our job in the safest possible manner, and we are dedicated to flying because we love it, it's a passion of ours and because people enjoy going places faster. A typical day of a Flight Instructor is very diverse. We might fly five or six different kinds of airplanes, we might be with a beginning student or a very advanced student who is looking to get a Insurance Check Out in a very high performance aircraft. So it's fun, it's diverse, it requires good communication skills and we also enjoy just hanging around talking about flying."
eHow Article: Flight Instructor Job Description