Title:
NAFI 2026 - Using VR to Accelerate Flight Training
Topic:
This Presentation Explores How VR Functions as a Powerful Tool, Bridging the Gap Between Lessons With Guided Practice
Brief Description:
For decades, CFIs have relied on simulators for a narrow set of training tasks—basic attitude instrument work, emergency procedures, and select IFR skills. Valuable, yes—but limited. High-fidelity Virtual Reality is changing that equation entirely. With affordable VR now widely accessible, flight training no longer must stop when the student leaves the airport. CFIs can assign structured VR sessions between lessons, allowing students to repeat maneuvers, build muscle memory, and develop spatial awareness in an immersive home environment. No more waiting a week for the next flight to refine slow flight or nail a pattern entry. This presentation explores how VR serves as a powerful continuity tool—bridging gaps between lessons through purposeful, guided practice in slow flight, stalls, traffic pattern work, navigation, and emergency procedures.
Select Number:
EA13145369
Location of Seminar:
NAFI Professional Development Center
Wittman Regional Airport
Booth 354
Oshkosh, WI 54902
Directions to Venue:
Booth 354, east of hangar B - just behind the Garmin booth, white tent with a huge NAFI logo.
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Seating:
Check Additional event Information below for possible registration requirements.
Sponsoring Division:
FAASTeam
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
Jim Carroll is a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI/CFII) and Ground Instructor (AGI/IGI), based in Northern New Jersey. A pilot since 2001, he teaches primarily as an independent instructor at Caldwell and Lincoln Park. For over thirty years, Jim has worked at the cutting edge of technology, building a data center business that delivers cybersecurity services to the U.S. defense industrial base. A lifelong learner, he's deeply interested in how emerging technology can improve education — and in how innovation can make flight instruction safer and more accessible for the pilots who will shape aviation's future.
NAFI is the National Association of Flight Instructors and is the largest association dedicated exclusively to flight instruction. NAFI’s vision is ‘Safer pilots through flight instruction excellence.’ NAFI’s mission throughout its 59-year history is to promote flight instruction excellence with education, mentorship, and advocacy. This is accomplished by providing instructors with tools and resources that help them deliver the best professional training and service possible. Anyone may join NAFI to take advantage of the many educational and flight tools, products, and discounts available. www.nafimentor.org. Contact nafi@nafimentor.org 866-806-6156.
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Equal Access Information:
The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) is committed to providing equal access to this meeting/event for all participants. If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please communicate your request as soon as possible with the person in the “Contact Information” area of the meeting/event notice. Note that two weeks is usually required to arrange services.
Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
FAASTeam Project Information:
National Project:
Safety Promotion Outreach for Pilots
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