Flight Training The Way I See It
Flight Training - The Way I See It is a weekly podcast covering essential news, like regulation changes, Training Tips to improve your flying and Opinion on a variety of issues. Hosted by Mike Shiflett, Director of Training at CFI Bootcamp.
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Episode 77: FAA Test Changes, Scholarship Season, and a Fix for DPE Variance (opens the original)
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This month: the FAA's plan to end knowledge test question harvesting starting October 27, 2026 (Instrument Rating Airplane and Remote Pilot tests first), a proposal to standardize DPE checkrides and kill the "what's the gouge" culture, a look at the scholarships available for flight training, and updates on CFI Bootcamp's GAPS course and September classes.
Episode 76: ForeFlight Adds AI Connect — And Why CFIs Can't Sit This One Out (opens the original)
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ForeFlight's Premium tier now connects to ChatGPT for flight planning, weather interpretation, and NOTAM parsing. It can't make your go/no-go call — it doesn't know your fatigue, your currency, or your comfort in that terrain — but it can compress hours of planning into minutes. The bigger point: your students are already using AI. They're just not telling you. That's why the entire first day of our 7-day Initial CFI class is now devoted to teaching AI tools for both instructors and learners, st
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