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The Whole Shebang Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the lessons as desired,...
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CFI, MEI, & CFII PTS Lesson Plans Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit...
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ACS Review Pack Features Save months of time and frustration Great for CFI's and students! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the eBooks as desired,...
$ 49.00
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CFI PTS Lesson Plans (Single Engine Land) Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit...
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CFII PTS Lesson Plans Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the lessons as...
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CFI PTS Lesson Plans (Multi-Engine Land) Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the lessons...
$ 29.00
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CFI PTS Multi-Engine Add-On (Land) Features Save months of time and frustration Your lessons are complete! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the lessons as...
$ 15.00
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Private Pilot ACS Review Features Save months of time and frustration Great for CFI's and students! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the eBooks as...
$ 15.00
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Instrument ACS Review Features Save months of time and frustration Great for CFI's and students! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the eBooks as desired,...
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Commercial ACS Review Features Save months of time and frustration Great for CFI's and students! Our eBooks are delivered as a Word document & PDF - Edit the eBooks as desired,...
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Overview Holds are tough, we want to make them easier We pooled all of our resources to compile the most critical, difficult to retain, and useful information for Holds. Whether...
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Your personal Backseat Pilot for all things IFR and VFR, now with a new, cleaner look! - Includes the ICAO Flight Plan, & Equipment and Transponder Suffixes! We're pilots, we...
I was in the process of making all my CFI lesson plans and at after about 5-6 hours and getting not even a quarter done, I decided to look for CFI lesson plans online. I stumbled across The Backseat Pilot and it looked good and so I bought it for a reasonable price and it exceeded my expectations. I would recommend The Backseat Pilot to anyone!
I bought The Whole Shebang because I plan to get my CFI, CFII, and MEI. The content of the lesson plans follows the ACS/PTS in detail and provides a great lesson plan on its own but also provides a fantastic baseline if you want to edit it to personalize it.
Thanks to Nate and his team for making the ground prep so much easier for instructor candidates! Keep up the great work!
Any CFI or aspiring CFI will benefit from this outstanding work.
Probably one of the most comprehensive and articulate, straightforward lesson plan sets out there. I’ve tried to make my own, and I’ve done “ok” at it, but this helped fill in any cracks in my plans. To the point where I switched over entirely. Great job, guys.
Great product. Wonderful work and extremely useful. Thank you so much for all the research and work accomplished! Will recommend your lesson plans to every CFI candidate.
I’m a long time cfi with old, handwritten lesson plans and recently switched over to your awesome lesson plans! Very well done!
Great product and totally worth the money. The lesson plans are great and very thorough! Everything is to ACS/PTS standards but have way more info for good lesson planning.
The Backseat Pilot Lesson plans were a great investment. Purchasing them allowed me focus on reviewing the material and simply customizing it for my liking rather than spending tons of time formatting them from scratch. Not only that, but I got a great deal on the Whole Shebang which sets me up to complete all three instructor certificates & ratings. It is also great to have access to any updates that are released in the future.
This was the best $99 I ever spent. I love having all the information on just a couple documents with easy access to everything through the table of contents. The VFR/IFR card sent in the mail is very handy as well with relevant information. I am very pleased. I also like that this comes with lifetime updates for free!
I purchased the CFI lesson plans, and they served me well, so I decided to purchase the II ones. They are very thorough and have plenty of pictures and references. These have saved me soooooo much time!! Definitely worth every penny!
I recently purchased the lesson plans and they are amazing. They are very thorough and detailed. It really allows me to save time and add/delete what I need to customize them for my needs. Thank you for the great product!!
They are derived from the PTS, but expand further into the PHAK, FAR AIM etc. Presented in a format that easy to tailor to your own needs.
Material is well laid out for each lesson area. Really easy to use and edit as needed for additional information to teach from. Overall very impressive products. Would highly recommend and encourage you to use this for your instructional needs.
As a Helicopter CFII working on my ASEL add-on I was blown away by the attention to detail put into these documents. I have created my own curriculum for helicopters, but will definitely be using these for my airplane lessons once I complete my CFII add-ons.
The DPE i went with is strictly a scenario based DPE, so I didn’t wanna spend too much time on creating my own lesson plans. I bought backseat pilot’s lesson plan. It worked for me as it follows the PTS exactly, and on the day of my checkride was a great source along with my FAA PHAK & FAA AFM. Make sure to re-write the speeds and etc for your type aircraft.
The latest updates have been uploaded to your account! Changes to the CFI, CFII, and MEI lessons as well as the Private, Instrument, and Commercial ACS. Get the details here...
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This month brought a decent number of improvements to all of our lesson plans - CFI, MEI, and CFI-I! More details on the content that was added can be found here, read more...
