SMAC266 Improve Your Landings

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Landings

Welcome to episode 266. Today we will discuss how you can Improve Your Landings whether you are a beginner or seasoned pilot. Additionally, we will discuss suggestions and techniques for our flight instructors to use while teaching landings. 

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Cruise Flight (Talking Points): 

I am Carl Valeri and joining me today to discuss how you can improve your landings whether you are Sean Moody, Bill English, Tom Frick, and Victoria Neuville. As a bonus, we will discuss suggestions and techniques for our flight instructors to use while teaching landings.

  • Why are landings important?
  • FAA Airplane Flying Handbook: “over 45% of all general aviation accidents occur during approach and landing phases of a flight…..over 90% of those cases where pilot related and loss of control was a contributing factor in 33% of those cases.”
  • Learning How To Land
  • Improving Your Landings
  • Tools for better landings.
    • Books
    • Video
      • Inflight
      • Online courses
    • Software
  • Advice To Instructors When Teaching Landing
  • Biggest mistakes instructors make when teaching landings.
  • Suggestions for teaching better landings.

After Landing Checklist:

Picks Of The Week:

Carl – King Schools – Takeoffs and Landings Made Easy https://www.kingschools.com/aviation-courses/takeoffs-and-landings-made-easy 

Bill – The Finer Points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRh9LjSYvlI

Victoria – Love is in the Airport https://fb.watch/3CUVOGh36n/ (bonus points if you can find this on YouTube because i cannot for the life of me)

Sean – Red Tail Air Adventures https://flyredtail.com

Tom – 101 Things to do with your Private Pilot Licence amazon.com/Things-Your-Private-Pilots-License

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SMAC265 You Can Have a Successful Flight Instructing Business Part 2

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Welcome to Episode 265. This episode is for flight instructors and those who are considering becoming a flight instructor. But instead of an episode about the technical details involved in instructing we will discuss how you can have a successful flight instructing business. Today we continue our discussion from the last episode. 

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Cruise Flight (Talking Points): 

  • Part 1 recap
    • Day vs hourly rates.
  • Flight school vs independent: some additional thoughts to part 1.
    • Employee vs 1099 (contractor)
    • Why some schools don’t give you a choice.
    • Corp to corp bill.
    • S, C or LLC. 
      • Talk to your accountant.
    • Benefits
    • Students provided by the school
  • Insurance. (carl or victoria)
  • Types of students
    • Primary
    • Advanced (instrument / commercial)
    • Multi-engine
    • Non-rating-seeking (proficiency and refresher training)
    • Even type rating.
  • Seeing a market/creating a niche
  • Recurrency (FIRC)
    • In-person
    • Online

After Landing Checklist:

Picks Of The Week:

Carl – https://amzn.to/35CqeBo

The Savvy Flight Instructor: Secrets of the Successful CFI Second Edition

Russ – Library of Congress Historical Sectional Maps https://www.loc.gov/item/2009582532/

Bill – https://www.facebook.com/kimlysak  https://www.facebook.com/AdvancingAviation

Sean – Free syllabi for CFIs https://www.gleimaviation.com/resources/free-downloads/, https://www.asa2fly.com/Pilots-Manual-Private-Pilot-Syllabus-PDF-P3805.aspx, https://www.sportys.com/syllabus, https://www.kingschools.com/cfi/documents/king-schools-private-pilot-syllabus.pdf 

Tom – https://www.cloudahoy.com/

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