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Are you an aspiring or current CFI preparing for your instructor checkrides and looking to provide top-notch instruction, or a flight school looking for consistently updated training materials?

Look no further than Backseat Pilot - your ever-evolving CFI resource.

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Everything You Need to Succeed

  • Detailed Lesson Plans
  • Professional Slides
  • Tailored Syllabi
  • Thorough ACS Reviews

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Adapt our materials to fit YOUR teaching style & lifestyle. All files are included in PC (Word & PowerPoint), Mac (Pages & Keynote), as well as PDF formats! And they work with Google Docs and Slides!

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With over a decade of content updates and highly satisfied CFIs, our products have received hundreds of glowing reviews from pilots & flight schools successfully navigating their CFI checkrides and instructing careers!

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  • All CFI, CFI-I, & MEI Lesson Plans & Slides
  • All Private, Instrument, & Commercial ACS Reviews
  • All Private, Instrument, & Commercial syllabi
  • Our IFR/VFR Kneeboard Reference Card
  • Free updates & additional content as it's developed

You're set for life! This all-inclusive package equips you with everything you need to prepare for your instructor training & checkrides, and to teach with confidence.

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How it Works

Prep

Save weeks, if not months, writing lessons for your checkrides with our ready-to-use lesson plans and slide decks covering every single CFI, MEI, & CFI-I ACS and PTS task. Tailor them to your needs (or use them as-is) and start practicing teaching!

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Go to your instructor checkrides confident with personally tailored lessons & slide decks designed for YOUR success.

Aviation Instructor's Handbook, pg. 7-9:
"Commercially developed lesson plans are acceptable for most training situations, including use by flight instructor applicants during their practical tests..."

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Take your tailored lessons & slide decks and seamlessly transition to instructing future pilots with detailed syllabi, ACS Reviews, and our adaptable resources.

Already have your ratings? Skip steps 1 & 2 and start using our materials to elevate your teaching!

Keep moving forward with our constantly updated, improving, and growing content!

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Probably one of the most comprehensive and articulate, straightforward lesson plan sets out there.

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Don't let the challenges of preparing for your CFI checkrides, building a CFI program, and instructing overwhelm you. Streamline your preparation with Backseat Pilot's resources, so you can focus on flying and teaching.

Ttake advantage of our comprehensive resources designed to support your success.

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The CFI lesson plans are an amazing tool!! These have been an amazing template and tool to help me build my own lesson plans. If you’re on the fence about it, I highly suggest taking advantage of these!!

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Lessons & Slides

A complete and detailed lesson & slide deck for every task in the CFI & MEI ACS and CFI-I PTS. Our CFI, CFII & MEI lessons are exactly what you need for your Instructor checkrides AND to teach future students.

Edit and tailor the lessons & slides to your teaching style or drop them on a tablet and go straight to work instructing!

Consistent FREE updates and improvements (as with all of our content).

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  • Teaching Students

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  • Mac: Pages & Keynote
  • PDFs
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ACS Reviews

Our ACS Reviews cover the Knowledge and Risk Management sections of every task in the FAA's Private, Instrument and Commercial ACS (CFI ACS is in the works).

Thorough and organized, they're great for instructors and students alike. Instructors, supplement your CFI, CFII & MEI lessons to ensure your student is prepared for their checkride. Students, use our ACS Reviews as a study guide to help prep for your checkride!

As always, updates are included and, of course, FREE.

Best For:

  • Reviewing ACS specific material with students
  • Studying for ACS based checkrides

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  • PC: Word
  • Mac: Pages
  • PDFs
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Syllabi

Take our lessons, slide decks, and ACS Reviews and combine them with our Private, Instrument & Commercial single-engine syllabi for a one stop CFI shop!

Our syllabi provide a detailed breakdown of every ground and flight lesson, including the Lessons and slides to teach from, student review topics, planned ground topics, aircraft maneuvers, and more! On top of this you'll find detailed hourly breakdowns, the applicable FAR requirements, as well as student trackers to monitor progress through each course.

Updates are FREE, as expected.

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  • Detailed structure to teach Private, Instrument & Commercial students
  • Tying the Lessons, PowerPoints & ACS Reviews together

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  • Mac: Pages & Numbers
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Pilot Resources

Checkout our growing compilation of resources providing sample study guides, a pilot resume template, multiengine concepts, airspace, and more!

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Flight Training Articles

Insights, advice, and direction for those trying to figure out where to start, flight training, time building, career options, and more!

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A collection of the ACs we found particularly helpful when preparing for CFI

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