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Or are CFIs just making a lot of mistakes?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a question the flight training community is wrestling with right now.<\/p>\n

According to officials with the\u00a0Society of Aviation and Flight Educators\u00a0(SAFE) aviation is \u201csuffering from an epidemic of flight test applicants failing to even qualify for their flight tests \u2014 they never even get started.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a meeting of Designated Pilot Examiners (DPE) and FAA personnel at\u00a0EAA AirVenture Oshkosh\u00a02022, it was estimated that one-fifth of applicants never even qualify to start their FAA flight tests due to incorrect endorsements or inadequate pilot experience.<\/p>\n

These CFI errors waste applicants\u2019 time and money while also squandering scarce DPE appointments, SAFE officials noted.<\/p>\n

That led SAFE officials to develop a set of tools to \u201chelp solve this wasteful problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tools are free to all aviation educators \u2014 you don\u2019t have to be a member of SAFE to use them.<\/p>\n

SAFE has created \u201cAll-In-One\u201d templates for common check rides. These formatted pdf documents, which are on the\u00a0SAFE website\u00a0and also on the free SAFE Toolkit App, list all required pilot experience in checklist format. They also provide the required pilot endorsements for common flight tests.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>The\u00a0SAFE Toolkit App\u00a0also provides \u201cCheckride Ready!\u201d for even more extensive check ride preparation of test applicants at all levels, SAFE officials noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or are CFIs just making a lot of mistakes? That\u2019s a question the flight training community is wrestling with right now. 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