{"id":2720,"date":"2017-01-31T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2017-02-02T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:40:32","slug":"im-a-commercial-flight-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Commercial Flight Instructor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 cancelations due to weather we finally got this done! As of 1\/26\/2016 I became a CFI. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 I had the room blocked out and scheduled for an oral that generally runs for 4-6 hours or so. We knocked it out in just under 3. Being prepared helped with this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2397\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi1.jpg 2397w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi1-300x93.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi1-768x237.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi1-1024x316.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2397px) 100vw, 2397px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flight portion is generally around 2 hours. Ours was completed in about 1.5 hours. I found it to be a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1916\" height=\"3247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi2.jpg 1916w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi2-177x300.jpg 177w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi2-768x1302.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi2-604x1024.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1916px) 100vw, 1916px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having everything laid out prior to the Examiner arriving is key (in this case he was from the Reno FSDO)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2674\" height=\"1891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi.jpg 2674w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi-768x543.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cfi-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2674px) 100vw, 2674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Knowing your flight plan inside and out and teaching it was one of my assignments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8618.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8618-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8618-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8618-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 6 cancelations due to weather we finally got this done! As of 1\/26\/2016 I became a CFI. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 I had the room blocked out and scheduled for an oral that generally runs for 4-6 hours or so. We knocked it out in just under 3. Being prepared helped with this. The flight portion is generally around 2 hours. Ours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigtirepilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}