Keeping track of students

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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How do other CFI's keep track of their students/progress/lessons etc?



Ok, I'm not a CFI but:

Where I'm doing my PPL training, they use the Cessna Private Pilot Course
software.

I have a floppy disk which I update each time I finish a ground school
chapter and my CFI updates the same disk after each flight lesson.

By passing this floppy back and forth, they can track my ground school
progress and I can track my flight progress with both camps being able to
pull up quiz results, print reports and show progress on flying skills.

It's a pretty slick system...even if I do have to listen to John and Marha
King's cheesy humor (not to mention the fact that one of the talking heads
they've hired for this itteration of the course is none other than Rick
Rockwell...the original "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire?" dude!

Perhaps you could just create a spreadsheet to track hours and keep notes
about each student?

Jay Beckman
Chandler, AZ
Student Pilot
1.9 Hrs ... Nowhere to go but up!

we did the same thing.. but when we did it, it was a training folder
produced by Cessna... and it stayed at the flight school.. it's hard to
erase pen on paper.. it's easy to trash a floppy..

we use the "training folder" method in the glider club too.

BT

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"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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How do other CFI's keep track of their students/progress/lessons etc?



Ok, I'm not a CFI but:

Where I'm doing my PPL training, they use the Cessna Private Pilot Course
software.

I have a floppy disk which I update each time I finish a ground school
chapter and my CFI updates the same disk after each flight lesson.

By passing this floppy back and forth, they can track my ground school
progress and I can track my flight progress with both camps being able to
pull up quiz results, print reports and show progress on flying skills.

It's a pretty slick system...even if I do have to listen to John and Marha
King's cheesy humor (not to mention the fact that one of the talking heads
they've hired for this itteration of the course is none other than Rick
Rockwell...the original "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire?" dude!

Perhaps you could just create a spreadsheet to track hours and keep notes
about each student?

Jay Beckman
Chandler, AZ
Student Pilot
1.9 Hrs ... Nowhere to go but up!

"BTIZ" wrote in message
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we did the same thing.. but when we did it, it was a training folder
produced by Cessna... and it stayed at the flight school.. it's hard to
erase pen on paper.. it's easy to trash a floppy..

we use the "training folder" method in the glider club too.


If you are using the Cessna Pilot Center software it is not very easy to
trash the floppy. The program sends a copy of its data to King Schools on a
regular basis and can be retrieved from there. If the floppy is lost or
destroyed a new will be created when you update floppy program at either the
home or school computer. The only thing you need is a blank floppy. The
program completely erases the floppy every time you do this anyway.