Sixth Master Accreditation Offered By The Company
Master Instructors of Longmont, Colorado recently introduced its
new Master CFI-Helicopter (MCFI-H) accreditation. Designed to
better serve the needs of the nation's rotorcraft instructors, the
MCFI-H designation is the sixth in a line of Master accreditations
offered by the company.
Improved safety in rotary wing instruction and EMS operations
has taken on a renewed emphasis in recent years. Thus, with input
from theFAA, the International Helicopter Safety Team, and
the Helicopter Association International (HAI), Master Instructors
LLC modeled the MCFI-H designation after its Aerobatic Instructor
Designation program, but tailored to flight instructors who devote
a majority of their instructional time to helicopters.
The Master Helicopter designation establishes higher
professional standards to which helicopter instructors can aspire,
and for which helicopter instructors who maintain those high
standards can be recognized. To qualify, a minimum of 50% of the
activities submitted by applicants must be helicopter related.
The first two Master CFI-Helicopter designations were recently
granted: Randal R Rowles from Fort Worth, TX, earned the first
MCFI-H designation, while Michael E Cassady of Arlington, Texas,
earned the second.
Randy Rowles
Rowles is the vice president of Night Flight Concepts. Cassady
works as a helicopter flight and ground instructor with Bell
Helicopter's factory school at Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW).
Both serve as FAASTeam representatives in the FAA's Fort Worth FSDO
area and are members of the Helicopter Association International
(HAI). Prior to their MCFI-H designations, both had previously
earned accreditation as Master CFIs.
Mike Cassady
Consistent with the original Master Instructor accreditations
introduced in 1997, the new MCFI-H acknowledges an individual's
continuing professional growth and involvement in a broad spectrum
of aviation endeavors while recognizing an ongoing commitment to
excellence, professional growth, and service to the aviation
community. The two-year MCFI-H designation can be used for CFI
certificate renewal as well, and is approved for FAA WINGS
credit.
Michael Maya Charles
Program creators Sandy and JoAnn Hill have been serving the
Master Instructor community since 1995. In 2009 they formed Master
Instructors LLC to bring greater autonomy and impartiality to their
program, which is open to all qualified applicants regardless of
their other aviation affiliations. Noted author, aviation educator,
helicopter instructor and Master CFI Michael Maya Charles of Erie,
Colorado, has joined the Master Instructor Board of Review to
evaluate MCFI-H portfolios.
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