How to Become a Good Flight Instructor

There are many ways to become a good flight instructor and, after 50 years of teaching others to fly, I have four ideas to share with you. It really doesn't take much other than desire to be one of the best CFIs in the business. If you follow even one of these four recommendations, I guarantee your instructional performance will increase dramatically. To learn more about my training materials, please visit: https://www.rodmachado.com. And please consider watching my companion video on The Five Step Teaching Process at:    • Rod Machado's Five Step Teaching Process (...   ROD MACHADO'S BIO Rod has taught... • many hundreds to fly airplanes • thousands as a classroom instructor • 350,000+ through his over 350 aviation articles • hundreds of thousands through his training materials • hundreds of thousands with his flight lessons on MS Flight Simulator Rod... ...is the author and illustrator of 7 aviation textbooks ...is the author, illustrator, and animator of 14 aviation eLearning courses ...is the author of 5 aviation audiobooks ...has degrees in Psychology and Aviation Science ...is Airline Transport Pilot rated with all fixed-wing (powered) instructor ratings ...has a lifetime appointment by the FAA as a National Accident Prevention Counselor ...learned to fly in 1970 and began instructing student pilots full-time in 1973 ...taught grounds schools, often to classrooms of 200, starting in 1975 ...has taught many hundreds of aviation safety seminars—US, Canada & Europe ...has taught hundreds of Flight Instructor Revalidation Clinics—US, Canada & Europe ...over 10,000+ hours flying were earned the HARD WAY—ONE flight instructor hour at a time ...co-wrote and co-anchored ABC’s Wide World of Flying ...was the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's National Flight Instructor Spokesman for 15 years (AOPA is the largest aviation association) ...asked by Microsoft to design the lessons and be the CFI voice for MS Flight Simulator ...was a columnist for AOPA Pilot magazine for 18 years ...was a columnist for Flight Training magazine for 25 years ...has taught aviation courses at Cerritos College, National University, Cypress College, and Orange Coast College ...personally writes and illustrates ALL OF HIS OWN training materials ...uses humor to help you remember the lessons ...has Taekwondo and Hapkido black belts and has practiced Gracie Jujitsu since 1989 (Maybe why Rod never has difficulty collecting his instructor fees.) “Machado is energy,” wrote Capt. Dave Gwinn. “He is a Psychologist, an educator, a humorist and an entertainer. He is a verbal gymnast and any one (or all four!) of his professional identities may rebound at any time.”