Skyborne Airline Academy announced it is raising the base pay for CFIS. [Courtesy: Skyborne Airline Academy] Skyborne Airline Academy is raising the bar—and pay—for its certificated flight instructors ...

I received a call from a recruiter for a regional airline who had stumbled across my CFI résumé someplace. As I have well over 1,500 hours, he wanted to know if I would like to fly for it. "No, thank ...

Flight instructors must actively cultivate empathy for their learners, remembering what it's like to be a novice and challenging their own assumptions to effectively guide students. Becoming a CFI is ...

One of the most challenging aspects of pursuing a career in aviation is balancing the cost of training with family responsibilities. That task just became a little bit easier for Gabriel Kesler, the ...

Aerobatics training is about pushing pilots and planes to the limit through spins, flips and stalls in order to prepare for ...

The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence honored its top academic instructors, instructor pilots and noncommissioned officer flight instructors in a ceremony at Fort Novosel, Ala., Dec. 11, 2023.

In 2001, Ezzie Smith took his first flight lesson. He was a freshman in college, and he was given the opportunity to learn at a monthlong flight program in Delaware through an ROTC course. Within ...