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Lrn2Fly
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« on: December 11, 2004, 09:21:56 am »

Why hasn't someone come up with a continuing education course for instructors?  Something that would keep us all on the same page and informed of all the changes that take place in aviation.  A meeting, say once a year, for a fee, with good speakers.   HuhHuhHuhHuh?
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Gary
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2004, 09:14:06 am »

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Why hasn't someone come up with a continuing education course for instructors?  Something that would keep us all on the same page and informed of all the changes that take place in aviation.  A meeting, say once a year, for a fee, with good speakers.   HuhHuhHuhHuh?


Well that is a good question I suppose.  I think there might be several answers to this.  I will go out on a limb and give me two cents worth.

1] The number of instructors that want to get better at this are so small that the event would not likely work.  The National Flight Instructor Conference lasted I think two years maybe three and not many people ever heard of it.  

The age old problem is that the most active CFI's are on the way to another job, the other set of active CFI's (like you) could teach the course.

2] Some of the instructors I know think they already know it all  Smiley

3] Many of the CFI's who care have full-time jobs and could not make a program that is held out of town, for that matter the ones that teach full-time can not afford to get off work or even travell to the event.

Sorry I am so negative on this.

The only thing I could think of would be a computer based type course, such as the Gleim CFI FIRC - That was very well done and we could take it at home.

When I was in San Diego with 1700 CFI's in the San Diego and Imperial County only 50 out of those CFI's showed up for the 10 week flight instructor workshop...then when the FSDO stopped renewing the CFI for attendance only 15 showed up.
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« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2006, 10:11:01 am »

   Probably the best continuing education program for instructors is to continue their own education in aviation by adding new ratings every two or three years and working with each other solving problems which students are experiencing. In checking my log books, I have found over 400 hours of instruction from other flight instructors who were more capable than I at any given time in a 35 year span. Ten or fifteen hours of instruction taken per year does not seem like a lot.
   In addition, my bookshelf has fifteen feet of aviation related non-fiction material read and studied with some of them being rare treasures inherited from other pilots. Many of these books go back to 1942 and 1943.  Another fact I have noticed is that many flight instructors have never used the real regulations with the Ppages (Preamble to the regulation) which tell why and how each regulation came into existence. For some unknown reason, these regulations are not required in aviation school libraries even for part 141 schools.

   Could it be that each of us may be responsible for our own never ending education?
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