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American Flyers Spotlight: Featured Instructors

Drew Lauth CFI at: Houston, TX (DWH) Working with American Flyers has many perks but one of my favorite is the community! Both the CFI and management teams have the best people who have been at KDWH since I was a student back in 2015! That makes it all

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Why Now Is a Good Time to Start Your Career in Aviation

You’ve heard me say this many times before, there has never been a better time to start your flight training! If you’ve been thinking about starting don’t procrastinate, here is a shortlist of why you should start right now: Airlines are hiring: Beginning last year, most airlines and corporate

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Flight Reviews – How to Prepare and What to Look For When You Arrive

By: Steven J. Daun, National Chief Pilot Over the past few years, I have written several articles regarding the importance of currency and proficiency for pilots. Depending on the type of flying you do, proficiency and currency come in many different flavors and styles. However, for the GA pilot,

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How to Choose a Flight School

By Steven Daun, National Chief Pilot When searching for a flight school, your first series of questions should be concerning the average amount of hours that it takes for a typical student to complete their training and the quality of instruction that you will receive. It should NOT be

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The Importance of Dual and Solo Simulator Training

By: Steven Daun, National Chief Pilot Records show that methods to tell the future, like a crystal ball, have been used as far back as the 1st century. Soothsayers used the magic ball to give advice to the world’s most powerful people. If you think about this, you must

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Finance Your Training Today And Start Flying Tomorrow

If you ever watched the movie “The Right Stuff,” there was a very quick yet telling line that applies to all wannabe pilots. Gordo Cooper asked a reporter if they knew what made their craft go up. The reporter asked, “what?” Gordo smiled and said, “no bucks, no Buck

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Life In The CFI Academy

Pilot’s Digest: Why did you choose American Flyers for your CFI training? Skyler Hudson: I chose American Flyers for my CFI training because I have worked with them through my private, instrument, and commercial. American Flyers has a strong reputation for developing competent professional aviators. When choosing a

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Women in Aviation: Inside and Outside the Cockpit

By Steven Daun, National Chief Pilot I went to an aeronautical university in the ‘80s and could count the number of female pilots on one hand. Growing up in a house full of women and watching them achieve what they did, I could not understand why more females were

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Why Choose American Flyers’ CFI Academy

By Patrick Connell Legacy, an endowment, a bequest, a gift… These are a few hallmarks of a good flight instructor. He or she endows upon their students a lifelong gift that will forever change them in ways that they had perhaps never imagined. How, you may ask? First of

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Foundations of Weather and Instrument Flying

By Steven Daun, National Chief Pilot My aviation career started in the ’80s. This was before the smartphone and iPad era. We were fortunate enough to have a flight service station at our airport. Most of the time, rather than calling the FSS, we visited the office. The briefer

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American Flyers Spotlight: Featured Instructors

Why Now Is a Good Time to Start Your Career in Aviation

Flight Reviews – How to Prepare and What to Look For When You Arrive

How to Choose a Flight School

The Importance of Dual and Solo Simulator Training

Finance Your Training Today And Start Flying Tomorrow

Life In The CFI Academy

Women in Aviation: Inside and Outside the Cockpit

Why Choose American Flyers’ CFI Academy

Foundations of Weather and Instrument Flying

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