Certified Flight Instructor Intensive Initial/Renewal Training Course

NEXT COURSE : MAY 2025

This rigorous course is an intensive 14 day Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) initial training program designed to prepare candidates for a CFI initial certificate or to reinstate their CFI using industry driven best practices. Scenario based methods, differentiated instruction, and collaboration between peers will be emphasized when training future primary and commercial students. Applicants will experience the course together, as a cohort, and learn to fly and instruct in Anchorage, Alaska. This location will only enhance your skill set because mountain flying is a daily aspect of your flight training and lesson development. This unique environment will teach you to emphasize situational awareness and critical thinking in all of your training. Ground training, mentoring, and flight training will occur daily with peer development of lessons. The course is led by an experienced Gold Seal CFI with years of experience training new CFIs. This course will be supportive and collaborative, with an emphasis on growth-mindset as applicants learn to teach. You will learn to “train like you fly.” We will use scenarios as a means to deliver primary information and as a means to teach correlation of concepts, good aeronautical decision making skills, and risk management skills. The skills learned in this course will be transferable to any training environment. The goal is to produce highly competent CFIs with the understanding that every instructional action they take has an effect on the commercial and general aviation pilots of tomorrow. We believe the utmost priority is to prepare CFIs to be completely independent and employable in a variety of training locations. At Alaska Floats and Skis, we are passionate about training exceptional aviators and this course only furthers that deeply rooted commitment.