The Certified Flight Instructor course is the final page in our professional pilot program here at Castor Aviation Ltd. With this certificate you have been given the gift of sharing the positive ore of helicopter flight. You will now get to share your passion of flying with all of your students in the future. Although flight instruction is not for everyone it will have some extremely rewarding benefits.
The gratification of knowing that you helped someone succeed in one of the toughest challenges they have ever taken on.
The gratification that your students are going to be involved with an exciting new career potentially for the remainder of their working days.
Also, constantly teaching the same maneuvers over and over day in and day out will allow you to build your piloting skills to far greater levels then when you were just a commercial pilot.
During your CFI training you will get:
10 hours ground instruction covering; fundamentals of instruction, learning process, teaching process, student evaluation and testing, course development, lesson planning and classroom, training techniques, review technical subject areas, applicable FAA regulations.
20 hours dual flight instruction covering; aircraft familiarization from the instructor seat, advanced emergency procedures, possible student errors, principles of instruction.
*These Figures are estimates based off of the FAA minimum standards to receive your ratings, depending on personal aptitude and motivation levels prices will vary.
