Mid Island closed their flight school for two days, June 11-12, 2007 so that all of their flight
instructors and flight school management could attend the Cessna Pilot Center seminar. This
seminar was held at the Holiday Inn, Ronkonkoma. Mid Island was well represented with
sixteen attendees.

MIAS CFI's at Cessna CPC Seminar

The instructors had the opportunity to attend sessions on topics such as:

• The Role of the CFI
  
• FITS & Scenario-Based Training
  
• G1000
  
• How to conduct BFR’s
  
• CFI Record Keeping
  
• Risk Management for Pilots

While the managers attended a series of seminars on marketing, websites, customer service, maintenance, risk management. Cessna talked about their new concept Light Sport Aircraft, or CSA (Cessna Sport Aircraft). They are still trying out different engines, wing designs etc. So while we do not know exactly what the CSA will be when it rolls off the assembly line, we know it will be an exciting Cessna product.
The highlight for many of the instructors was meeting John and Martha King of King Schools fame.