CFI checkride prep · Peak Aviation
27 done-for-you CFI lesson plans, mapped to the current FAA Flight Instructor ACS. Make them yours in an afternoon, and walk in sounding like you wrote every word.
$99 — less than two hours of dual instruction.
Let’s be honest
The ACS cover to cover. Twenty-seven lesson plans from a blank page. Months of oral prep while learning to fly from the right seat — and the nagging feeling you could study forever and still feel unprepared. That’s the job, and earning it matters. But hard doesn’t have to mean doing it all from scratch.
The products
Three ways to get checkride-ready — the guide, the editable plans, or both together.
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The study companion to the editable plans — get both in the bundle and save $9.
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Try before you buy
See the exact 7-step format before you spend a dollar: a complete sample plan from the collection, and the blank template to start building your own.
Send me the free packWhat pilots are saying
“They saved me a ton of time preparing for my CFI checkride and gave me a great framework for teaching each topic. Thorough, well organized, and easy to follow.”— Heather, CFI · CFII · MEI — 1,000 hours dual given
“These lesson plans made preparing for my CFI checkride much easier than I expected. Everything is clearly laid out and gives you a solid starting point for actually teaching the material.”— Josh, CFI — now an airline pilot
Why editable
Most CFI applicants spend months writing lesson plans from scratch. You don’t have to — all 27 are done. Your only job is making them sound like you.
The ground portion of the CFI checkride isn’t a memory test — it’s a teaching test. The examiner hands you a topic and watches how you teach it. A printed plan you’ve never touched reads like someone else’s words, because it is.
These are working Word documents, not PDFs you read. Rewrite the wording until it sounds like you. Add the examples from your own training. Drop in your airplane’s numbers. Tab the pages, mark them up, teach from them out loud until the lesson is yours.
Walk in with plans you’ve personalized, and the hardest part of the checkride gets a whole lot easier.
What’s inside
Every plan follows the same proven structure — Objective, Motivation, Roadmap, Teach, Common Errors, Standards, Check and Close. Learn the format once, then teach any lesson in it.
Each plan includes the mistakes students actually make and the standards you’ll be held to — the two things examiners probe hardest.
Numbers, procedures, and examples use the most common training airplane in America. Flying something else? The Word files make it easy to swap in your numbers.
Your instructor
Mason built these lesson plans the hard way — by teaching them. Every plan in the collection is one he wrote, refined, and taught from while preparing pilots for their checkrides.
The result isn’t a textbook. It’s a working CFI’s binder: the exact format, the common errors students really make, and the standards examiners really test — ready for you to make your own.
Questions
The guide is a 266-page PDF — read it on any device or print it. The lesson plans are Microsoft Word (.docx) files, fully editable: text, tables, formatting, all of it.
Writing 27 complete lesson plans from scratch takes most applicants months. Here they’re done — personalize the set in days, then spend your time practicing teaching instead of formatting documents.
Instantly. Checkout is handled by Gumroad — the moment your payment completes, your download links are on screen and in your email. No waiting, no shipping.
Yes. Every one of the 27 Word files is fully unlocked. Rewrite the objectives, add your own examples, swap in your airplane’s numbers, reformat the pages — they’re yours to change however you like.
They cover 13 ACS Areas of Operation for the FAA Flight Instructor Airplane checkride (everything on the initial checkride — multiengine is a separate add-on) — 27 lesson plans, one per required topic, each mapped to the ACS.
The bundle saves you $9 versus buying the book and the plans separately. If you already own the book, grab the editable plans on their own — you’ll have the complete kit either way.
No — and the FAA says so explicitly. The Aviation Instructor’s Handbook (Chapter 7) states that commercially developed lesson plans are acceptable for most training situations, including use by flight instructor applicants during their practical tests. Examiners expect prepared materials; what they judge is whether you understand them. That’s why every plan here is fully editable — make them yours, know them cold, and teach from them with confidence.
Every purchase is covered by a 30-day guarantee. If the materials aren’t what you expected, email us within 30 days for a full refund — no questions asked.
No. The course is on pause for now — these are the standalone materials: the complete lesson plan guide and the editable lesson plans. Everything that made the course’s materials great, without the course.
Yes — free lifetime updates. Whenever the plans or the guide are revised (including ACS changes), the new files land in your inbox at no charge.
The complete kit
The 266-page guide plus all 27 editable lesson plans — everything you need to walk into your CFI checkride prepared. Save $9 with the bundle.
Get the Bundle — $119Instant download · Free lifetime updates · 30-day guarantee
Still deciding? Email me — I read every message.
— Mason Garry, Gold Seal CFI