CFI ORAL EXAM: Part 1/7 | FOI

This video series along with Todd Shellnutts cfi prep are some of the most helpful resources ive had throughout my journey. The fact that we live in a day and age where resources like these are easily accessible makes me so grateful. Just passed my cfi oral!

Seems like you are referencing notes as you explain things. Do most DPE's allow this? Referencing notes on all the PTS requirements.

thank you for the great video

He's using his iPad during the mock checkride. You're allowed to read answers to questions asked by the DPE from approved FAA materials? You don't have to have everything memorized?

Dumb question, are you able to reference your binder materials during the checkride? I see you referencing your ipad throughout, just curious if that's normally acceptable or am I going to have to memorize it all.

A huge thank you for this video series ! definitly helped me during the studying for my CFI, passed first try ! :D

Hello! Is there a link with more information on becoming a CFI for the Lufthansa USA program? I am really interested! Thanks!

Hey Jon,
Just wanted to write and say thank you so much for all of the free CFI checkride videos you have posted. I’ve never been the strongest with Oral knowledge portion of exams and discovered your guys channel during my student pilot phase a little over a year and a half ago. Prior to every checkride (Private-Commercial and CFI) I’d watch your videos over and over - pausing whenever you or the volunteer would ask a question and answer it myself.

Yesterday I passed my CFI initial checkride after about a 3.5 hour oral. There is no doubt that your videos had a huge help in making me better understand the PTS (I even enrolled in the PTS explained guide your school offers). You guys do a great at making even the most complex subjects understandable for a new/confused student and I look forward to sharing your content with my future students to help try and ease the nerves

Thank you again!

Can we do what Jon was doing here on our checkride? Using our notes to answer the DPE questions

Are you allowed to have notes on the check ride or like a quick reference guide? I can't help but notice you have something like that on your iPad and glance at it every now and again. I see you aren't relying on it 100% but do look at it. I'm just curious if I can have something like this on actual check ride or if it must be all in my brain. - thanks for the videos I watch them all as I prep for my own check rides and they help a huge amount.

became a cfi today, had this on repeat for months

Really good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

watched these videos leading up to my checkride. passed! thanks

With the domains of learning i would have liked to see more of an explanation of the levels for each domain.

Mine was back in 74 with a federal examiner. It was in the TCA which is B airspace today. He knew I was a high school teacher at the time. We flew out of the TCA and out over Lake Erie. He says give me 60 degree bank with 360 degree turn. He says I will give you 20 feet each way. So I did that and he says let’s head back. I thought I must have flunked it. No he must have had a lunch date. We went back in and signed me up for CFI. I just had practiced 60 degree bank turns so I lucked out on that. My CFII again at Federal Examiner. We went out and shot a couple of instrument approaches in the TCA. It was a short one also.

Hey, Jon. Great videos. Quick question. I was led to believe that the FOI part of the oral was not open book. Am I correct? If so, would the examiner go along with your use of an iPad or laptop?

As a CFI have you explained some of the priciples of effective learning to the student to explain "why you did the way you did" during a flight lesson? That might help the student appreciate the context. And this sort of conscious learning can be contrasted with muscle memory exercises to "train out" unsafe behavior, which also has an important place in flight training.

Dude your markers suck!!!! Great vid!!

I would hope she doesn't issue you an FAA License!

This series REALLY helped me. I listened to it in the car a couple weeks before my checkride. I passed the first attempt last week! Thank you so much!

I love a lot of your videos, but I disagree with one thing. When describing the “sense of security” and you mentioned “nothing wrong with their family” there could be things going on with family, friends etc. but we, as CFIs have to learn how to deal with that and not let it project on our teaching. I guess my point is, everyone has a life outside of flight instructing but we have to manage this and ultimately present ourselves in a professional and manageable manner to our students.

are parts 5,6,7 private?

I'm preparing to take my CFI checkride this month and this entire series has been outstanding, THANK YOU! One question, throughout this simulation, you as the candidate had constant access to your IPAD with your prep materials. Is there a rule/guideline or anything official that I can read that sets out what materials a candidate may reference during an exam, and how often then can access during the exam? I get that we don't want candidates looking in the books for every answer, but the other extreme doesn't seem right either. Thoughts?

You’ve really changed my life since when I discovered your channel

I’m honestly not the best sturdier but am working on my CFI. Gave up on all distractions, video games, drinking etc. These videos are a huge help. Thanks!

Hey Jon, thanks for the videos, they’ve helped a lot. I’ve had a long road and forgotten a lot what with delays for many reasons for me. Just wanted to know what the difference was between these videos and the CFI ones on your site?

Thank you so much brosephhhhh

Thank you for the help. I passed on my first try at KBUY airport on 4/20/22

Here’s what we did

Oral: (after FOI did the requirements from the PTS and all sections with incorrect answers from written exams)
-FOI:
Human behavior and effective communication
The learning process
Assessment and Critique
Instructor responsibilities and professionalism (Asked what to do with emotionally unfit/unstable student)
Risk management
- Technical:
Runway incursion avoidance
Visual scanning and collision avoidance
Principles of flight (teach whole lesson but he asked a few questions about relative wind and load factor)
Airplane weight and balance (How to calculate)(characteristics of aircraft performance with CG location)
Navigation and flight planning (He wanted to see if I can do a flight plan and show him what I'm doing and my thought process on making a flight plan)(Asked what to do if a solo student went missing)(How to use E6B)
National Airspace (sectional overview)
Navigation systems and radar services (quick overview of VORs and GPS satellites)
Logbook endorsements (overview from student pilot through private pilot checkride)(what to do if solo student landed at wrong airport)(when to use a 61.31 endorsement)(how to conduct a flight review?)(TSA security and international student pilot questions)
Special Emphasis Areas:
Positive aircraft control
Aircraft control exchange
Spin awareness
LAHSO
CFIT
Wire strike avoidance
Special use airspace
Single pilot resource management
- Preflight Preparation:
Performance and limitations (Looked over every performance chart in POH)
Airworthiness requirements (What to do with Inop. equipment)
-Maneuver lesson:
Steep Turns

Flight:
-Preflight procedures:
Taxiing (How to taxi?)
-Takeoffs and Landings:
Soft field takeoff
Soft field Landing
Short field takeoff
Forward Slip landing (Plan on short field landing, winds shifted before takeoff so he changed it to forward slip)
Fundamentals of flight:
Climbs (after Takeoff)
Climbing turns
Performance maneuvers
Steep turns (Teach to commercial standards and he will try, correct his mistakes)
Chandelles ( He gave me a choice between chandelles and lazy 8s, just teach and demonstrate)
Stalls:
Power off stalls (Teach to private standards, He will try and makes mistakes on recovery, Correct mistakes)
Accelerated stalls
Basic Instrument:
Standard rate turn (He didn't want foggles just teach)
Emergency: (chose 5 senserios)
Engine failure approach to land (He'll start it and we guide him through and we take flight controls around 1500 feet AGL and continue the approach till 500 feet AGL)
Oil Pressure issues (I chose this scenario)
Alternator failure (I choose scenario)
Brake failure (I choose scenario)
Engine fire (I choose scenario)
Ground reference:
Turns around a point
8s on pylons

Really nice and helpful series for CFI check-ride, just passed mine yesterday, so excited and so thankful for these videos. Which airport you teach at?

Hey John Ive got my MEI checkride coming up in hopefully three weeks. I'm going to watch all of these CFI checkride videos in preparation. Thank you so much.

Question, can you have notes on an ipad like him during the real exam ?
Thanks

THANK YOU!

Thanks for these. I am working on my CFI and hopefully about a month or two away from the checkride. Having done well on my private, instrument and commercial rides, this one is quite daunting.

Levels of learning , you only talk about the cognitive levels , affective and phsymotor is missing :(

Taking my CFI soon. Very beneficial! Thank you!

Ummm... basically...umm...this is basically a very good umm video...great content! Just please please please stop using the word basically!!! Ugh!

Do u guys think using a note in faa cfi oral exam with DPE is okay? Most of instructors told me I can't use the note or iPad in oral exam. Just want to prepare for any situation
by the way its the great video I am watching all video from my beginning of my PPL training..

The question was , what is human behavior ? Or what are the theorie of behaviorism , because I think he did a mix between both definition

Interesting point about Maslow's hierarchy. They say that food is at the base of the pyramid and that if we are hungry, we can't learn/fly.

I will make a counterargument on this. Unless your body is starving , meaning your electrolytes are low and/or your body fat has diminished to mid single digits, hunger is merely triggered by periodic rises in the hormone Ghrelin and may not impact learning. On the contrary, anecdotally speaking, skipping meals benefits my piloting. Often times I will not eat until 2pm on a flying day. I know this is also kind of wacky, but I drink salt water before flying. Not literally sea water, but 1L water with 1-2tsp of sodium and "no-salt" (potassium) mixed in it. The electrolytes stave off hunger, retains fluids, and requires less bathroom breaks. No, I do not believe sodium really impacts blood pressure all that much for most people who has a reasonable diet and exercises. Koreans tend to eat 2x the salt of Americans and they do not exhibit HBP in anywhere near the numbers (118/76 average for Koreans).

I would also posit that when traveling XC to a lunch destination, if one eats a very carby meal with no protein (ie big bowl of pasta or fries), that pilot might exhibit more hazardous behavior on the trip back from fatigue. This might be especially true if the pilot's trip was an all day one with a lot of walking at their destination, the sun is beating down on them, and if the pilot is returning late in the day or the evening. I'm glad Jon mentioned protein bars since they are a superior choice for nourishment.

Anyway, food for thought (pun intended)

My CFI checkride is next wednesday. Now I'm here!

Good for all of you for rote memory, for passing the FOI. Now you can get into the real world and do what somebody else is going to tell you, what hoop to jump through NEXT...to be a contest on the price is right.
It's a never-ending backstabbing labyrinth of Ego maniacal cause and effect....you can't see it until you die....so lay on your death bed and tell me....why?...did you spend so much money on being so miserable and away from your loved ones for 30 years, just to sit next to your Alpha twin and smell their brown eye....get real.... it's you in the mirror....your EGO is talking....miner birds... all pilots are the same...all military subjects have their heads shaved...shape up or ship out.....NEXT.....you don't win the prize in the crackerjack box....fools.
I am a retired teacher with a degree in teaching and can tell you... the FOI...is not real...and so, if you already know, then why are they still after all these ASC revisions ...still teaching rote memory to the dead.
Because there's a wrong way, and the FAA way...and the right way....
Hey DPE....can I tell you what I really think, or should I just press play on this rote memory recorder and never really understand how to be a real teacher and let the circle of accidents continue to happen because it isn't my fault, aviation is like the covid pandemic....oh man... you're going to inject me with something that's going to cause havoc with my immune system...ok...as long as I can play, wheres the golden ring....

Very helpful to anyone working on their CFI. Just passed my checkride yesterday. This series was very useful in my study.

Just passed my initial because of these videos !!!

No one:
Fly8MA: "SHORE"

Intense: I must have been 3 or 4. I was with my dad at the old Robert Mueller airport while he was working for Burlington. Night time, the sound of a (now I know) DC8 APU at the cargo dock. Orange lighting.

Reaction formation is when they fake a belief contrary to how they really feel. It’s a way to hide how one truly feels about a situation.

I got my CFI around 10 years ago, but moved on to other parts of the profession shortly after. This was a great refresher. I'm glad to say I remembered most of what is discussed in the videos, but no one's memory is perfect. This is way better than any FIRC for getting into the nitty-gritty of CFI knowledge.

I saw Zidane giving a CFI oral exam today...XD

Thank you for everything you do.

am i allowed to just reference my binder the entire time like this guy?