I find that many CFI applicants get in trouble on the oral because they treat CFI training as just another rating for a pilot certificate.

The CFI Certificate is a teaching certificate not a pilot certificate. This involves public speaking skills, research and study to enable the applicant to impart aviation knowlege and facts that are concise and accurate.

The bottom line is many applicants deserve to fail because of a serious lack of preperation and study. If an applicant cant explain the difference between the crab and the wing-low method of the crosswind approach and landing techniques or the difference between gyroscopic precession and asymmetric propeller loading or any of the hundreds of other subjects then he is exposing himself to a pink slip.

It all comes down to a lack of study and prep.

Erik