THE SAVVY FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: SECRETS OF THE SUCCESSFUL CFI

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As a newly certified flight instructor (CFI), a pilot can be faced with a difficult prospect—how to make a living and keep flying to build up piloting hours. This book offers timely and humorous help for flight instructors to market their flight school, meet all those people who really want to fly, and keep them flying. Also emphasized is a broader understanding of the business of the flight school, including how flight schools can revamp marketing and student-recruiting strategies.
 

CONTENTS 

• Foreword 

• Preface 

• ONE : A Very Special Club 

• TWO : Positive Rate of Climb: Getting Your Carrer Of The Ground

• THREE : Where Do New Students Come From ? 

• FOUR : Converting Prospects Into Flight Students 

• FIVE : Sharing The Adventure: That All-important Introductory Lesson

• SIX : A Professional And An Expert 

• SEVEN : Tricks Of The Trade 

• EIGHT : Keeping Your Students Flying

• NINE : Priming Your Students To Pass The Test

• TEN : Getting Them Back For The Next Rating 

• ELEVEN : The Business Of Flight Instructing 

• TWELVE : The Flight School - Framework For Success

• THIRTEEN : Business And Professional Opportunities: Your Future As An Instructor 

• FOURTEEN : Legacy Of An Instructor: The Privilege And The Glory

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Greg Brown has long wandered the skies of North America with family and friends. His love of flying is apparent to anyone who reads his "Flying Carpet" column in AOPA Flight Training magazine, or his stories in AOPA Pilot and other publications.

An aviator since 1972, Greg was 2000 National Flight Instructor of the Year, winner of the 1999 NATA Excellence in Pilot Training Award, and the first NAFI Master Flight Instructor. He holds an airline transport pilot certificate with Boeing 737 type rating, and flight instructor certificate with all fixed-wing aircraft ratings.

Despite such accomplishments, Greg has never lost touch with his roots as a new pilot flying light airplanes. To this day, every takeoff is as exciting for him as the first one. Of course he's not alone; all pilots feel that way. Other books by Greg Brown include Flying Carpet, The Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual, Job Hunting for Pilots, and You Can Fly!

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