Flight Instructor Ratings

The Flight Instructor Ratings may be the most important ones you can achieve. Being an instructor means that you can share your piloting skills and passion for flying with someone else. An instructor is highly influential in promoting aviation, and is the front line for promoting safe piloting in a complex and rapidly changing industry. Our instructor training is dedicated to producing professional-quality teachers of flight.

If you are a Galvin-trained instructor with a love for teaching, strong piloting skills, and a desire to help others succeed in aviation, you’ll be given first preference in hiring for the Galvin instructor staff. We hire retired airline captains, former military aviators, aspiring professional aviators, and those who combine a love for flying and teaching into their ultimate “hobby job."

Achieving your Certified Flight Instructor ratings means you have demonstrated a level of flying ability and knowledge such that you are now qualified to teach others and be paid for it. Many career pilots use Flight Instruction as a great way to build time flying while getting paid. Galvin can not only help you achieve your Certified Flight Instructor ratings, but may even consider you as a Galvin flying instructor!

There are three primary categories of Certified Flight Instructor, each requiring different criteria:

1. Certified Flight Instructor (CFI)
2. Certified Flight Instructor-Instrument (CFII)
3. Multi Engine Instructor (MEI)
Instruction Areas Covered

In addition to the piloting specifics for the instructor rating sought (FAR 61.187), instructor training covers:

* The learning process
* Elements of effective teaching
* Student evaluation and testing
* Course development
* Lesson planning
* Classroom training techniques

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