Flight Training The Way I See It

About 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. There are recaps of major conferences and events, interviews with top people in the aviation industry and of course Mike's unique and at times edgy opinions on what's right and what's wrong in flight training. Always informative and always entertaining, tune in each week to get the latest Flight Training the Way I see it.

Publisher

Mike Shiflett

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Oct 2018

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Episode 78: AI for CFIs, Fixing the Oral Exam, and Flying on a Driver's License

   The first day of every CFI Bootcamp Initial CFI class is now a full day on using AI as a learner and teacher. In this episode, Mike covers the five vetted AI tools, recording lessons in flight and on the ground, turning summaries into podcasts, generating quizzes on the fly, building 5-minute preflight briefings, and the Code of Ethics that defines when and how AI should be used in flight training. Attend the AI day alone or add other themed days. Details: https://www.cfibootcamp.com/simpl-e-schedule

2. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Episode 77: FAA Test Changes, Scholarship Season, and a Fix for DPE Variance

   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.

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   Episode 76: ForeFlight Adds AI Connect — And Why CFIs Can't Sit This One Out

   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, starting August 10th. Also in this issue: the Aeronautical Knowledge Gaps bundle at $300 instead of $1,400, the new Pipistrel/Textron Voyager and Cirrus TRAC10 trainers built to MOSAIC standards, and three ProTips on scheduling and preflight briefings.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

42

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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