 Welcome back everyone to Sun and Fun 2008. I have the honor today to present a couple that have been dedicated to aviation safety and in particular to the role of the flight instructor for many years. In 1967 they began the National Flight Instructors Association NAFI and with 100 members. Today they are 5,500 members strong. This association has been dedicated to supporting and promoting professionalism in flight instruction, a profession that needs mentoring and that is a key profession in our aviation world. Joanne and Sandy Hill also administer the Master Flight Instructor Awards which is another follow on to aviation safety and promoting the best in instruction. They also along with their other duties administrate something that's very important to all of us in GA and that is the General Aviation Awards Program. It honors the finest in general aviation. These dedicated people have spent many years and continue to do so to make our aviation world better. Please welcome Joanne and Sandy Hill. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you so much for taking some time out of your busy schedule while you're here at Sun and Fun to join us for an hour of our thoughts as they relate to flight instructor professionalism. As Kathleen said, we are Sandy and Joanne Hill. Sometimes referred to as the headmasters. We'll get into the reason for that in a few minutes. I'm Joanne Hill serving as Vice President of NAFI. And I'm Sandy Hill and I also serve as Vice President for NAFI. NAFI is an equal opportunity employer. We really would like to spend both of our time talking about our thoughts, our perceptions as they relate to flight instructor professionalism. So with that in mind, we're just going to cover some of the things that we think a professional flight instructor should be, should do, etc. Okay, the professional CFI. This is the age-old model of a professional CFI. A good teacher and communicator, that's a given. Also must be a proficient pilot, that's a given also. You do realize that once you earn that CFI certificate, that's really not a pilot certificate, that's a teaching certificate. And always remember that education and teaching and instructing is what the CFI is about. You need to be also a safety advocate for your students, an ethical service provider, and a continuous learner. Especially in the 21st century, you cannot stop learning. You have to keep on learning yourself. And we expect you to be a mentor and a role model, a mentor to other CFIs, new or younger CFIs. And you're always a role model. When you're out at the airport, everyone is watching you. You're the role model. If you do it, it must be okay. Right, yeah, I would like to parrot Kathleen's words when she was introducing us. She was talking about mentors and mentoring and mentorism. That's really what flight instruction is all about, is being a mentor for other pilots. What we would like to do now is build on that very basic description of a professional CFI. Let's talk about some of the issues that CFIs have to deal with today in the 21st century. Obviously, you're going to have choices. Lots and lots of choices. A few of them are where to instruct, who to instruct, what to instruct, and what equipment to use. Think about those choices that you as a CFI will need to make. The field has become so specialized nowadays. Back when we started out in aviation decades ago, a CFI was a CFI was a CFI. You all did pretty much the same thing. You taught people how to fly. You took them towards certificates or ratings. You did an occasional flight review after that was introduced. But that was really the extent of your work. Think of how different it is today. It's just incredibly different today. Let's look at your choices about where to instruct. There are ab initio programs where you take someone from zero time to airlines. Amazing. University and college programs. Lots of those around. More every day. You could be teaching in a private flight school or with an FBO at the airport. Or there are industry training programs such as CERA, CESNA, et cetera. You could be an independent contractor. Yeah, there's still an awful lot of independence out there. Back when I got started, I used to make jokes about flight instructors teaching out of the trunk of their car. And there is still some of that going on. Unfortunately, a lot of airports frown on that anymore. All right, let's talk about who to instruct. We can instruct people who are really in it only for the thrill of flight. They have no intention to use the aircraft. It is not a tool for them to make business trips or anything like that. They're not doing it because it's fun to do. There are business pilots, people who use their airplanes. A friend of ours has a V-tail Bonanza and he uses that airplane weekly to go off all over the United States on business meeting, business trips, and that sort of thing. So we're going to have those kinds of folks we need to deal with. And that takes a different kind of training and a different level of training and we also have the aspiring professional pilots. All of those young folks, male and female, who are really looking for a ticket to the right seat on a commuter airline. That's their goal in life but we still need to be training them as well. All right, here are some more choices. What to instruct? My machine is sticking. Okay, you can do the primary training just like in the old days how to CFI as a CFI is a CFI. You just teach people how to fly. You start day one until they get their private certificate. You could also specialize in advanced certificates and ratings. Maybe you're tired of bouncing around in the 152 and you want to say, I've had enough of this. I'd like to specialize and just do instrument training. Also, you could be teaching people about the new aircraft that are coming out, the LSAs and the BLJs and the TAAs and the new avionics that are out there. People come to instructors to learn all the new stuff. Or you could be someone who specializes in flight reviews and IPCs. Lots of people, everybody needs those and some people just like to do nothing else but proficiency training and flight reviews. Or you could be someone who spends a lot of time with insurance checkouts and the guidelines that the insurance industry puts on us for training. And the remedial training and recurrent training, all of those are ongoing and good things. We have groups like the B-Triple-P, Bonanza Pilot Proficiency Program that holds weekend proficiency training for Bonanza owners. All of those are opportunities for instructors. Or you could be someone who just likes to do ground schools or maybe in conjunction with high schools, colleges, tech schools. Let me embellish a little bit. While we're here, I'm going to digress a little. It'll become important later on. You look at the first two bullet points up there. Primary training and then advanced and advanced certificates and ratings. Everybody in here heard of gold seal? You know what a gold seal flight instructor is? Well, then you probably know that there are really only two ways, or until recently, only two ways an individual could get a gold seal flight instructor certificate. As a CFI, you had to fly with a certain number of people over a certain period of time and have a certain pass rate. And if you did that, and you had either an advanced ground instructor rating or an instrument ground instructor rating, either one, then you could get a gold seal. The other option was and remains, if you're a designated pilot examiner, do a certain number of flight checks over a certain period of time and you got either the advanced or the instrument ground instructor rating, that'll get you a gold seal. All of the other things that people are now doing, specializing in TAA, or specializing in flight reviews, IPCs, proficiency training, ground schools, remedial training, if that's all they do, and there are a great many out there, that is all they do, do they ever qualify for a gold seal? Yes? No? No. No, they don't. And the reason is because you have to be involved in signing people off for certificates or ratings. And if you're signing people off for certificates or ratings, okay, I digressed too much. What equipment to use? It runs the whole gamut. LSAs, light sport aircraft, all the way up to very light jets. Some people, believe it or not, are actually taking their primary training, if you want to call it that, in a very light jet. I can't fathom that. I just can't imagine that. But people are out there doing it. They're trying to do it. Yeah, much better descriptor. Right. If you have an opportunity and have not yet taken the time to learn a little bit about light sport aircraft, go up here to the LSA mall, they call it. They've got a dozen or more beautiful little airplanes. I'm sure that many of them won't be around in five years, but wonderful little airplanes, and boy that's it, way to go for people who want to just get started in aviation. Home builds, experimentals, that's always an option too for many people. You could get a glass cockpit, even in these LSAs, you can get a glass cockpit. Look at the price tags if you go up there on those airplanes. $100, $110, $120,000 for this little bitty airplane with a glass panel. It's got the same glass panel and the United Airlines flies. Same panel. It's just unbelievable. And you know, believe it or not, you can still today buy an aircraft with the steam gauges, the dials. You can still buy it, but guess what? It's an option and it costs more. Isn't that interesting? And who to thunk ten years ago? Who to thunk? That's amazing. Take advantage of resources that are available to you as a flight instructor. And, well, not only should you be using the books, the CDs, the DVDs and online courses that are available, but recommending this to your students and directing them to the appropriate websites and that sort of thing. Don't hesitate to use simulators. If you have one available, use them. There are some incredible simulators out there and the price on those keeps coming down too, which is an interesting concept. Okay. Keep on going. This is the expanded profile. Now in the 21st century, we're going to add to that first list of qualities that a professional CFI should have. So you need to be a resource on current issues. Lordy, Lordy, there's so much going on in general aviation and even the rest of the world of aviation that we need to be aware of. So there's lots of ways to do that. You can get Avweb and all those electronic newsletters. You need to be an advocate for general aviation. We need to save the airport. We need to be sure that big tower doesn't get built. We need to just be sure that pilot rights are protected and user fees, things like that. You need to be... I read just yesterday and maybe some of you saw it, I think it was in the GA News. An airport in West Virginia is...now listen carefully. They are closing a runway to build more hangers. Think about that. They're closing...the crosswind runway. They're going to tear out the crosswind runway so they can build more hangers. A lot of thought went into that. Okay. You need to be proficient with the new aviation technology that's coming out. If you don't know, at least know where to find out an answer. You should be using the newest methods and materials. Things like fits and scenario based training. All those new concepts and ideas that are being thrown out. You need to get...step up and learn what they're all about. You need to possess savvy marketing skills. You need to sell yourself these days. People won't know you're there unless you do some kind of advertising or websites, business cards, all kinds of ways to do that. And you need to be, of course, computer literate. There's no way you can stay up with aviation activities if you're not computer literate. The FASafety.gov website, the FAS team program is all on the web. If you want to... Well, I guess it's not mandated everywhere yet, but it's probably going to be, but IACRA, when you're filling out the old 8710, it's going to be someday just over the web. You fill it out and it goes right to Oklahoma City. Let me throw out something with regard to marketing skills. Many of you have probably heard the name Greg Brown. Greg Brown was the 2000, I think? I think so. National CFI of the Year. Greg is a noted aviation author. He lives out in Arizona and quite a guy and a very good flight instructor, I might add. Several years ago, Greg published a book called The Savvy Flight Instructor. I highly recommend that to everybody. And here's why. If you were to get the Savvy Flight Instructor, open it up and start paging through it, and if you have any information in there about how to do Chondels or how to teach turns about a point or anything like that, what you would find is how to market yourself. That whole book teaches marketing. Marketing skills. Marketing yourself as a flight instructor, making a living as a flight instructor. So, The Savvy Flight Instructor, Greg Brown, it is available through ASA, I think. Yeah. Resource on current issues. You need to be a resource on current issues because, well, let me try it this way. Have you ever read any of you, ever read a story in a newspaper that was aviation related, that was written by a reporter who knew nothing about aviation? You've seen that? Yes. Right. I will never forget. This is The God's Honest Truth. There was a story 15 years ago I read. It was just a little two paragraph thing about the twin engine Cessna 150 that went down and all six souls aboard perished. Okay. We need to be a resource for those people. I have contacted my local newspapers out in the Denver area on numerous occasions saying, if you want me to read through something that you've written just for accuracy, I'd be glad to do that. It would be far better than making statements like that. Know the FARs. They change. They change constantly. We need to keep up with them because people are going to come to us to ask for an interpretation rightly or wrongly. You need to know about new aircraft maybe if your flight school or your airport gets something new get out there, get familiar with it get checked out in it so then you can start teaching in it because that's probably the one that folks are going to want to learn to fly. Know where to get an answer. We all know these sage old guys hanging around the airport who seem to know just about everything there is to know about aviation make their acquaintance pick their brains, get to know them and feel comfortable that you can use them as a resource when you're asked a question that you don't know the answer to. What does it mean to be an advocate for general aviation? Be part of groups that are protecting pilot rights and there's lots of alphabet groups out there AOPA, EAA even a group like NAPI be part of those groups because they're the ones who have the numbers the mass, the louder voice and it comes time to have a voice in Washington DC to try to affect a change even on a local level be part of a local pilots group and that's protecting airport rights you'll have the airport pilots association of some sort is trying to make things better be a media resource like Sandy was saying for accurate information be a resource also for local government officials to help them make informed decisions if they want to build a new cell phone tower at the end of the runway and all they can think of is this is the best place to put it because they're not pilots they need to be taught they need to be instructed why that's not a good idea that there certainly is a better place be proficient with technology it's a battle that we fight from time to time in our roles in NAPI and in the general aviation awards program we hear from people who know nothing about computers are reluctant or even flatly refuse to get involved with computers on any level we need to be proficient with technology so that we can help at least our flying clients through those hurdles so that they can use that as a tool as a resource to get additional information to make them a safer and better pilot participate in industry training that's kind of what this is right here what we do here at Sun and Fun and to the same extent up in Oshkosh lots and lots of forums are available ranging from things like this to safety seminars and so forth take advantage of those opportunities as they come along be familiar with new equipment before you instruct in it that might sound like a silly thing to say but can you imagine flight instructors doing that I can it's called on the job training you get in the airplane get the POH out for this new gizmo that you got in your airplane and you teach somebody as you learn it there are probably better ways have additional resources for questions that you can't answer we've already adequately addressed that okay use the newest methods and materials always use a training syllabus and this is a good liability insurance policy if you use a syllabus because then you document what you've done in each lesson and you can always go back and say yep I trained that person and when he's in trouble and he says well I never learned that nope you used the syllabus and there it was in lesson 13 that you learned cross with landings or whatever it might be learn about fits this is the FAA industry training standards it's the wave of the future it's scenario based training it's learner centered evaluation where the student is more actively involved in evaluating his own performance know the vocabulary like scenario based training and what does that mean as opposed to maneuvers based training we've probably all of us here learned maneuvers based training we took our pilot instruction we went out and we did turns around a point or lazy eights or whatever we did but in a scenario based training what you do in a lesson is built utilizing all the skills that the instructor wants to teach you in a real life situation so maybe you have a flight where you have a purpose in mind and then things start changing or going wrong and you have to decide what to do or how to use this maneuver to get out of the situation you're in or it's just a real life situation that helps with decision making I remember my primary flight instructor when I would show up at the airport I'd say what are we going to do today well we're going to go out and we're going to do turns around a point so you'd go out and you'd spend an hour doing turns around a point and you'd come back to the airport and land and go home and come back the next week and then you'd do pilot eights or S turns on a road or something like that very different from this scenario based approach maybe you might have a scenario like how to get into sun and fun and maybe you need to do S turns across the road because you're not cleared to land and there's a lot of people and you've got to slow down you know it would be a perfect way to teach that maneuver what's a mentor pilot anybody ever heard the expression mentor pilot it's kind of an official thing now is it a CFI? yeah anybody guess? not necessarily in fact more often than not it isn't it's being used in VLJ very light jet training where you have you take your basic training and then you have someone else who flies additional hours with you as a mentor pilot who's not signing you off with hours of instruction but meeting the needs of insurance primarily that you have enough experience to eventually fly on your own consider using simulators to reduce the cost of learning to fly excellent thing with the now the cost of fuel is skyrocketing yeah customize homework using books and online courses for your clients depending on which ways they learn better if they're not computer savvy you're not going to want them to use an online course ok we've already addressed the FAA industry training standards fits where can fits information be found ok FAA aviation news which is back there on the table right you can get copies of that right back there on that table it's the FAA it's bi-monthly right? bi-monthly magazine and I suggest that everybody take a look at that from time to time that magazine is evolving and becoming a much better magazine and a far more useful tool FAA safety dot gov and FAA dot gov are both sources of information for fits how about savvy marketing skills ok identity apparel hat shirts, jacket spins when you are out on the golf course or out in public and you're wearing a shirt that has an airplane or wings on it people are going to notice and say oh you must be a pilot I've always wanted to learn to fly and then you start a conversation and you might gather up some business for either your flight school or yourself using business cards and stationery is a good thing to do depending on where your situation but you know if it's an FBO they might let an independent put their little business cards out there on the counter or just have flyers on the bulletin board use the media outlets, newspapers, radio, tv whenever possible we had a master instructor lived up in minnesota who every time he got a new student to solo and every time he had a student pass a flight check he had a little canned three paragraph article and this was back at the time polaroid cameras were still available he'd take a polaroid picture of the student he'd fill in the appropriate blanks in his canned three paragraph article and send it to the local daily fish wrapper, they loved it they loved it, they're always looking for filler they might not have run it that day but they would sure run it and that's a great way of marketing yourself and letting others in the community know that there is a flight school here and I'm available to teach you how to fly always things like newsletters and email opportunities to, you know, if you have a list of your past students who you flew with for the private certificate, keep them on your email list and send them little notices of little newsy items or reminders of flight reviews coming up maybe they might like, why get an instrument rating or why this is a good time to do that, use email to send them reminders and encouragement to continue their flight training you can always build your own website which is easier and easier these days or get someone to help you, especially younger folks, really like the web so, you know, they're browsing along, they'll find you, find your website, get lots of information about learning to fly and about you as an instructor and be part of a professional association like NAFI which is the only professional association for flight instructors take advantage of the resources that are available through professional associations and you'll find a wealth of resources there that will not only make you a better flight instructor but also help you to market yourself and that's a very important tool, be computer literate use email with your clients now some of them who are less than computer savvy may struggle with that but that's one way to get them, at least get them a little dual instruction on how the computer works communicate with them via email, you know, for scheduling and things like that take and recommend, take yourself and recommend to your students online courses, AOPA has dozens of really very nicely done courses, the Air Safety Foundation has a wealth of stuff like that that is there for you and your students as well take advantage of it, be familiar with FAA dot gov and FAA safety dot gov both websites particularly the FAA safety dot gov has a lot of resources as it relates to learning, online learning and that sort of thing take advantage of it, have a library of websites that you can share with your students you know, just print out a sheet with various web addresses for things that will help your student become a more proficient pilot and use and recommend CDs and DVDs as study material some people are comfortable with that, some are not but that will, that continues to change and evolve and it will probably get to the point in our lifetimes I think, when that becomes the norm it is not quite there yet we need to share one bit of information with you a gentleman who actually lives here in Florida has been fighting the computer battle for years and I mean, he has dug his heels in I'm not going to touch one of those things, I want nothing to do with it it isn't going to help me a bit why in the world should I spend time and money learning how to use this thing, it just isn't going to make any difference in my life besides which, I got a fax machine I don't need a computer okay there are people out there like that there are, and they want to learn to fly so we're going to have to deal with them okay, new FAST team and new wings program if you've been hanging around this building any length of time this week, you surely have heard of the FAST team FAA safety team, that's the new acronym where can you find information about that faasafety.gov and you do need to register if you have not registered on faasafety.gov and you're missing out on a lot of information they're about, they're about 480,000 airmen and that's the correct term airmen, not necessarily pilots and mechanics and so forth but 480,000 airmen who are now registered on faasafety.gov out of about 900,000 so we're about halfway there and then the SPAN's program is part of faasafety.gov it's the safety program airmen notification system we're getting away from the old postcards of when the safety seminar or the wings program is going to be offered in your area you register on faasafety.gov you tell, you indicate which areas of aviation you're interested in a notification via email of upcoming events and you can select the parameters by the way I'd like to know about all of the upcoming events within 50 miles of me or within 100 miles of me all events that are specific to flight instructors and flight instruction you can set all these parameters in there it's a very useful tool and a neat system and maybe you were part of the safety program before as an aviation safety counselor now it's the FAS team and it's a new program so you need to re-register to be part of that and you do that on faasafety.gov if you like to do wings program safety seminars be part of promoting safety with the general public it's a good thing to do and we do encourage all of our master instructors to be part of the FAS program and of course IACRA which makes some people kind of shudder but there's been some problems with the website recently I understand as recent as last week there were some major problems but IACRA is being used for 8710s now so you fill one out the student fills one out and takes it to the DPE and you need to do it all online so there's no more paperwork and no more putting it in the mail and things being lost and time being taken by going through the system some tools that are available to help you be a better flight instructor through NAPI master instructor accreditation which we'll discuss in a minute we've got a couple of websites the NAPI website itself NAPINET.org and then there is a website specific to master instructors that contains all the master instructor information and application stuff and hundreds of master instructors a couple of publications mentor magazine a monthly magazine that is written by flight instructors for flight instructors and is mailed routinely to all NAPI members e-mentor it is not an electronic version of mentor magazine but rather because of the publication lag in mentor and I think it's about three months there's about a three month lag time in mentor e-mentor comes out every two weeks and it has stuff that's going on right now that flight instructors need to know about as a part of your membership in NAPI you do get a free subscription to flying magazine too excuse me ask the master's network on the NAPI website and that's the first one NAPINET.org there is a section that is devoted to well kind of a mentoring tool master instructors from all over the actually all over the world have listed themselves and their areas of expertise and things that they think they would be willing to mentor others in so you can go to the ask the master's portion of the NAPI website if you've got a question about how to become a DPE or how do I get involved with go there and there's contact information you can contact these folks and they'll be glad to discuss it with you and mentor you through the process seminars and training here's a good example we're here at Sun and Fun doing this seminar as NAPI representatives and we do this kind of thing all over the United States so take advantage of those opportunities as they come along there is also an insurance program available through NAPI and a lot of professional discounts I'm not looking to plug anybody in particular but one that comes to mind immediately as a NAPI member you get a 40% discount on all of the Glyme products 40% so what a lot of CFIs are doing they're buying training material through Glyme getting the 40% discount and then selling it at retail for nearly so to their students and it's just another source it's not a lot of income but it's another source of income for the flight instructor so that kind of thing is available for you as well that's the NAPI website the homepage for the NAPI website that's the master instructor website and you will see in the upper left hand corner there where you're supposed to put in a username and a password you don't have to that's just there to scare people you don't have to put anything in there you can get into the website and look at all of the information about the master instructor program and also there on the left hand side you see a picture of two people standing by an airplane in Longmont, Colorado on a clear cloudless day with the mountains in the background that's Sandy and Joanne Hill there's a little 37 second video of us talking about the master instructor program that you're sure will come to listen to and look at NAPI recognition all right part of being a professional we should recognize people for their achievements and for their professionalism so about 11 years ago now we opened or we introduced the master instructor accreditation program to recognize CFI's who are meeting higher professional standards and we'll get back to that in a minute we also have the national CFI Hall of Fame it's housed in Oshkosh Wisconsin and we also participate big time in the general aviation awards prop program which includes the CFI of the year okay let's look at master instructor issues in detail it is a professional accreditation it's renewable it is issued for two years and it's renewable just as your flight instructor certificate is every two years you have to go through the process again so that we can attest to the fact that you are meeting these same professional standards and the FAA as well as industry has really bought into the program the program itself or the accreditation itself sets some professional standards it recognizes aviation educators who really do go above and beyond the call they are they're not just the average run of the meal flight instructor that you might find hanging around at the local airport these people truly have some things to offer as aviation educators there are a few perks there are a lot of perks but a few that are significant one of the things you can do when you earn the designation is that will renew your flight instructor certificate by earning the designation we can also give you a new flight instructor certificate for 24 calendar months now going back to the gold seal discussion that we had a little while ago this is a relatively new development in the program those people who do not have a gold seal but who hold either an advanced or an instrument ground instructor rating and our current master CFI that now gets you a gold seal so that's the only other way you can get a gold seal by becoming a master CFI and that's significant because so many people anymore are specializing in areas of aviation education where they're out of the market for gold seal they just can't get it and then you can also use the designation to renew your position as a part 141 chief flight instructor or assistant chief flight instructor because technically the master instructor accreditation is a FERC even though it's unlike any FERC you've ever seen but it would renew your credentials as a part 141 chief or assistant chief alright here's a picture of the meet the master's breakfast we hold one here at sun and fun it'll be tomorrow morning and another one at air adventure every year where we honor the master instructors they're invited to bring a guest as well we have EAA and NAFI and FAA people come to honor the master's as well as our corporate supporters here is a picture of our former FAA administrator Mary and Blakey she was good enough to come for five continuous years to our breakfast at air venture and honor us by saying nice things about flight instructors and NAFI masters and the NAFI programs she definitely recognized it without instructors there is no aviation and some of you may have seen in the things that I write a quote she made a very profound quote about a year ago she said the master instructor is the best the right seat has to offer she said that so I take full advantage of that quote okay we also have the national flight instructor hall of fame that's held every fall in Oshkosh at the museum there and these people are honored every year and their name and their trophy is in the museum if you ever get to go to the museum and look up these people we recognize CFIs who have made a significant regional national level contribution to aviation education and flight instruction while reflecting credit upon themselves in their profession very noble sounding words but these are people, let's see, last year was Hal Shevers and Wolfgang Langeschwisch I'm not sure I'm saying that right Langeschie, stick and rudder author okay general aviation awards one of the other things that NAFI is involved in but to a much greater degree what Joanne Hill are involved in is the general aviation awards program the national general aviation awards program I am honored to be sharing the stage today with the national chairman of the general aviation awards program Joanne Hill she is the one who oversees it and makes sure that everything gets done in a timely way in an objective way in an accurate way and so forth the general aviation awards program are sponsored by well there are actually 12 organizations listed there are now 13 sponsoring organizations and they contribute operating funds and so forth so that we can make the program work the program recognizes the CFI of the year the aviation maintenance technician of the year the avionics technician of the year and the fast team representative of the year which until recently was the aviation safety counselor of the year so tell them a little bit about general aviation awards it is very much a cooperative effort without the structure of the FAA physio regional office to the national level we wouldn't be able to accomplish this humongous task of gathering nominations from all over the country so the nomination forms are available on FAASafey.gov as well as on websites of the sponsoring organizations we've tried to streamline the application and make it not so formidable to some people and get good nominations but they start out at the physio level and then with the fast program managers the FPMs these days are called and then they move on those winners move on to the region so there are eight regions now and there are regional awardees and then those regional people move on to the national level and national winners are selected from a panel from nationwide people yeah so there are a couple of people we would like you to meet this year's national CFI of the year who by the way is here today the national CFI of the year master CFI and master ground instructor Max Trescott from California this year's national fast team representative of the year is master CFI and master ground instructor John Typen little unusual situation here with John John is not only the 2008 national fast team representative of the year the 2005 national CFI of the year I don't know that's ever happened before this year's national aviation maintenance technician of the year Mike Bush also from California and the national avionics technician of the year Tim Adkinson ok now that we've met those I would like to introduce you to someone else Rich would you join us up here for just a moment on stage it is my honor and privilege to introduce everyone here to this year's 2008 southern region CFI of the year Rich was one of the eight regional winners this year so congratulations you did a wonderful job we're proud to have you here I would like to add something before Rich speaks I think he is a prime example of what we've been trying to describe to all of you today he is a professional CFI he's a master CFI with Nafi and he fits all the requirements of a true professional CFI of the 21st century thank you very much all I want to say is on behalf of Sandy and Joanne and of course Nafi and the general aviation awards program I just want to thank everyone for their recognition and I look forward to contributing safety to the pilots that I work with in the future well thank you very much for your words Rich tell them where you are the academic director for flight safety academy in Varro Beach Florida I'm actively instructing CFIs at the academy and also besides running the academic department I also contribute to ground school instruction in the CFI ground school set day school and they're just over three years now well again thank you very much congratulations we'll see you tomorrow at the meet the master practice okay that was a little kind of impromptu thing okay we want to end this and I'm not talking about stopping right now but we have a kind of a cute little quiz you can't do a thing like this without having some sort of a test or a quiz or whatever heck we're teachers remember we're all teachers so you have to have to test the knowledge of your in this case our audience so let's just have a little bit of fun with some of these questions here they are all relevant and by the way every one of them is off of the CFI knowledge test but let's just have a little fun with the CFI what records are you required to keep anybody know one what record yes sir okay a log of all flight training and ground training the name and the date for students you sign off for solo very important the name and date of students endorsed for knowledge or practical test which is kind of what rich said and then you also have to put down whether they passed or failed and you have to keep those I think that's the next yeah how long you have to keep those those records three years everybody three years okay at least three years right at least three years is what it says ah is there a limit to the number of hours you can provide flight training in one day flight training in one day anybody say again okay Carl says anybody argue that rich you can tell he teaches CFI right he teaches CFI that's essentially what Carl said yes right eight hours in a 24 hour period okay CFI responsibilities what is your responsibility regarding permanent mailing address changes what do you need to do as a flight instructor what do you need to do if you're mailing address changes what do you need to do come on what is that 30 days okay very good within 30 days you have to notify the FAA's airman certification branch and you can now do that online which is kind of a handy tool alright if your flight instructor certificate was issued today what is the last day what is today today is April the 10th April the 10th 2008 it's my brother's birthday yes it is alright April the 10th 2008 what is the last day you can exercise the privileges of that certificate April 30th oh 9 very good no April 30th oh 9 if your flight instructor certificate was issued today 10 10 right two years it says on the back of your flight instructor certificate it's it no no if it was issued today new certificate or a renewed certificate you have 24 calendar months and that was the word we were looking for really 24 calendar months which would be the 30th of April I assume it's the 30 30 days as of October April 30th of April 2010 so 24 calendar months yep alright warning this is something that we have when we review master instructor portfolios we have caught a few people who have had a misunderstanding you look on the front side of your CFI certificate and it tells you an issue date so let's say it's issued April 10 2008 but let's say that you had a flight instructor certificate that you got six months ago but you had a change of address and you wanted to have your new address on that certificate so you said I want to have my current and correct address on that CFI certificate so I'm going to go down and get a new one alright so six months ago which would been October it would have was your original issue date now you get a new one issued April 10th with your new address on it when is your expiration date is it October or is it April when? October it's October and people especially when we all went to the new fancy dancy Wright Brothers plastic certificates turned in their old ones to get the new ones the paper ones to get the plastic ones and they had an issue date on there and they only looked at that date not the one on the backside that is the one when you took your FERC or you did a flight check or you got a new rating or certificate or whatever that's the date that is of primary importance so we have found people heaven forbid who have been instructing on an expired certificate because they were not looking at the date where it says expiration date of they were looking at issue date on the front expiration is on the backside we had a master instructor candidate who did exactly what Joanne just described he sent in his master instructor portfolio sometime six months or maybe a year before he had made an attempt to get the plastic the new green plastic flight instructor certificate he was looking at the issue date on the front of the flight instructor certificate never turned around and looked at the backside of the flight instructor certificate when his master instructor portfolio arrived in our office his CFI had been expired for 11 months he was the chief flight instructor and owner of a 141 school he had signed off 24 people in that 11 month period when he was not a flight instructor you see the problem check the backs of your flight instructor certificate CFI renewal ways you can renew we don't need to go through, there are 10 of them 9 9 different ways to renew your flight instructor certificate one of them as we mentioned earlier is to earn a master CFI designation CFI renewal if your CFI certificate expires how do you reinstate it check ride what's the difference between renew and reinstate right renewing is what you do when you don't have an expired flight instructor certificate reinstating is what you do when it's expired and it's kind of like starting from scratch but you don't have to take the written exam you only have to go out and fly with an examiner or an FAA representative who should obtain a ground instructor rating or why well actually I would rather ask everybody, every flight instructor should have at least one ground instructor rating either the instrument or the advanced I wouldn't worry about the basic but either the instrument or the advanced there are a lot of good legal reasons, advantages for doing that what are the three ground instructor certificates advanced and instrument that's our contact information there we live and work in longmont colorado we can be contacted at that phone number or the email addresses that you see up there we would welcome communication from you about any of the things that we do we are particularly committed right now to the general aviation awards program because it's that time of the year and we're trying to get all of that set up for air prevention and I want everyone to remember don't forget next wednesday don't forget this take your kid to work day and thank you very much for coming today we appreciate your time and your attention thanks a lot if anyone has questions we can hang around here yeah we will many of you out there who know a flight instructor a fast team rep somebody who deserves recognition now's the time to ramp up it takes time to do a good package it takes time to realize what goes into it so come on up join Sandy and Joanne we'd love to have you ask questions thank you thank you for your help Joanne how many noodles I'm an old master hi