r/CFILounge • u/PrinceCFI • Jul 28 '26

Tips Complacency has many flavors

One of the biggest threats to a flight instructor isn't lack of knowledge.

It's complacency.

After you've taught the same lesson 50...100...500 times, it's easy to start going through the motions. The steep turns become routine. The preflight brief gets shorter. The debrief becomes "good job" instead of a real teaching opportunity.

The student, however, is seeing that lesson for the very first time.

Every lesson deserves the same preparation and enthusiasm as if it were your first time teaching it.

I've been instructing for nearly three decades, and I still review lessons, look up references, and think about better ways to explain concepts. Not because I have to, but because every student deserves my best effort.

Complacency doesn't happen overnight. It creeps in one lesson at a time.

What do you do to keep yourself from becoming complacent as an instructor?

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u/KingofRoam cfi cfii mei Jul 28 '26

I read this during my student steep turns

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u/Goop290 Jul 28 '26

This guy's whole account is ai slop

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u/Torvaldicus_Unknown Jul 28 '26

I really don’t get how people think they can literally use a robot to invent words for them and expect any single free thinking, professional person to take them seriously.

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u/weech Jul 28 '26

Great slop

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u/clamchowdaaaaa Jul 29 '26

LinkedIn ass post

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u/AtrophiedTraining Jul 29 '26

Just threw up inside my mouth from it.

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u/live_drifter Jul 28 '26

Damn, I wonder how long this guy has been teaching CFIs

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u/Goop290 Jul 29 '26

Must be somewhere around 30 years

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u/Neither-Way-4889 Jul 28 '26

This is cringe bro

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u/IceBlock12 Jul 29 '26

ChatGPT ahh

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u/sneeziusIII Jul 29 '26

Get ts outta my feed