At my school in Long Beach, I cap new-student flights at three per day so there’s time to brief emergency procedures and fly unhurried, into‑the‑wind approaches in the R44. For those doing the hiring, are you looking for CFIs who document power‑recovery autos and LZ assessments every lesson, or is that protocol left to each instructor?
On the hiring side, I ask for two weeks of lesson notes and look for a consistent line item — “LZ assessed + power‑recovery auto brief” — not a novel; a single checkbox on the dispatch or a quick photo of the R44 whiteboard tells me you’re systematic. Your “three per day” cap is great, but if it isn’t captured somewhere I can’t show it to the chief, so make it visible; do you tag those in ForeFlight or just free‑text the notes?
At three-a-day in Long Beach, require student‑initialed ‘LZ assessed + power‑recovery auto’ on the dispatch; add DA/winds. Helicopter Flying Handbook | Federal Aviation Administration Workable?