Author: Brian Schiff

Brian Schiff draws from 21,000 hours of flight time and multiple instructor ratings to share techniques, tips, and advice to help make you a better CFI. His contagious enthusiasm for teaching and sense of humor make learning fun and impactful.
  • Preflight Tricks

    The preflight inspection is an important responsibility. Unfortunately, it is also one of themost mundane, causing many pilots to take it for granted and overlook potentialproblems. This has resulted in many preventable accidents. Pilots often rush thepreflight to get to the fun part — flying. A good preflight often eliminates the first link inan accident…

  • Let’s Have Fun

    Through the years, I have flown with many pilots. I made fewer mistakes and was less stressed when flying with fun pilots. Think about your friends. Why do you prefer to spend more time with some rather than others? Fun people make you laugh and smile. The same is true when training with a flight…