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Everything you Need for Your CFI Checkride & to Teach Future Students

Your Ultimate Flight Instructor Resource

Are you an aspiring or current Flight Instructor aiming to excel in your checkrides and provide top-notch instruction to your students? Look no further than Backseat Pilot - your comprehensive CFI solution.

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Why Backseat Pilot?

Everything You Need to Succeed

Detailed Lesson Plans
Professional Slides
Tailored Syllabi
Thorough ACS Reviews

100% Editable Content

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!

Free Updates for Life

Stay current with evolving regulations and content improvements - at ZERO extra cost or effort! Simply login & download the latest content.
The majority of our updates are based on your feedback. Don't hesitate to reach out.

Proven Expertise & Success

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!

I am absolutely amazed by the quality of this product! It's exceptional and impressively well-organized! A must buy!!

Scott

How it Works

1. 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!

View sample CFI lessons & slides:

II.A. Human Factors Lesson / Slides
VI.B. Traffic Patterns / Slides

2. Check

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..."

3. Teach

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!

Sample Syllabus Content:

Private Pilot GND Lesson 5
Commercial Pilot FLT Lesson 7

FEATURED PRODUCT

THE WHOLE SHEBANG

Our Most Popular Offering & Biggest Savings! The Whole Shebang includes:

All CFI, CFI-I, & MEI Lesson Plans & Slides
All Private, Instrument, and Commercial ACS Reviews
All Private, Instrument, & Commercial syllabi
Our IFR/VFR Kneeboard Reference Card
Free updates & additional content as it's developed
Saves $146 versus buying products individually

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

Learn More & View Samples

Using our Content

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).

Best For:

Instructor checkrides
Teaching students

Document Types:

PC: Word & PowerPoint
Mac: Pages & Keynote
PDFs

Using Our Content

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

Document Types:

PC: Word
Mac: Pages
PDFs

Using Our Content

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 (CFI syllabus coming soon)!

Our syllabi provide a detailed breakdown of every ground and flight lesson, including the Backseat Pilot 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.

Best For:

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

Document Types:

PC: Word & Excel
Mac: Pages & Numbers
PDFs

Take the Next Step in Your Aviation Career

Save Time - Start Teaching

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

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FAQ

Can I use the lessons on my checkride?

Definitely! Many pilots have (and passed)! We do, however, recommend that you use our lessons to supplement your own or go through and add/remove/edit the information to ensure you're well prepared for the checkride and are comfortable with the content's format and flow.

And the FAA agrees. Straight from the Aviation Instructor's Handbook:
"Commercially developed lesson plans are acceptable for most training situations, including use by flight instructor applicants during their practical tests. However, all instructors should recognize that even well-designed preprinted lesson plans may need to be modified. Therefore, instructors are encouraged to use creativity when adapting preprinted lesson plans or when developing their own lesson plans for specific learners or training circumstances." (Page 7-9)

How do I download the content?

Just create an account on the website with the same email address you used during checkout.

How do the updates work?

We're constantly working on improving the content. Generally, updates are released every month.

As content is added or updated, you'll receive an email summarizing the changes. Login to your account, click the My Digital Content button, and you'll find all of the latest content there!

Are there any subscription fees or future costs?

Nope! Leave the updates to us. One cost, free updates for life. We'll continue to add value without adding costs.

Your Ultimate Flight Instructor Resource

Why Backseat Pilot?

How it Works

Take the Next Step in Your Aviation Career

Save Time - Start Teaching

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