ADVANCED PILOT TAKING YOUR TICKET TO NEW FLIGHT LEVELS CFI TO CFI CONFIDENCE BUILDER When greeting a new student, assume nothing ยป By Frank E. Cahill SARAH HANSON CFI TO CFI NEWSLETTER Whether you're actively instructing or getting back into instructing, sign up now to receive the Air Safety Institute's free online CFI to CFI newsletter (http://flighttraining.aopa. org/cfis). HARVEY YOUNG AIRPORT is a small airstrip in northeast Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was bristling with activity in 1979-the result of the GI Bill of that era; there were thousands of Vietnam veterans seeking advanced ratings through the program that paid 90 percent of their training costs. I earned advanced ratings and my instructor certificate through one of these programs at a Harvey Young flight school, and then stayed with the same school to train new candidates. It was a part-time job, so I usually worked evenings and weekends. The ink on my temporary certificate was about two weeks old when I reported for work one summer evening. There was a visitor chatting with the boss at the reception desk. The stranger's hair was cut close and neat, and his cleanshaven face was pink from the summer heat. The visitor was dressed in slacks and a sport shirt; his gig line was straight and starched. Like most veterans of the period, I noticed things like a gig line; it's the line formed by the edges of the shirt flap, belt buckle, and zipper flap of the slacks. The neat and trim newcomer's line was perfect. He looked sharp. It was unusual to see someone so clean cut and neatly dressed in this era of long hair and platform shoes. JANUARY 2014 FLIGHT TRAINING / 45http://flighttraining.aopa.org/cfis http://flighttraining.aopa.org/cfis