Dudley Henriques wrote:

The one thing I always cautioned CFI applicants NOT to do is to overwork
an answer. The best answer is ALWAYS the least complicated that answers
the question. It's Occam's Razor in it's classic form.

Okay, that's very useful.

Every examiner has a few "trick" questions they like to "catch"
applicants on during the oral.
"What makes an airplane turn" is a favorite.

That could get me in trouble. "The pilot," Little Johnny replied.

One more detail; SMILE!! . It relieves the tension and projects to the
examiner how you will be interacting with your students.

I'm sure that's useful too. Our chief flight instructor has a joke or
anecdote for everything so at the end of the day, no matter how
stressful the training session was the student has something to smile
about. ...I'll probably sanitize his humor quite a bit. He's a
retired Marine and all.

Thanks for the encouragement, and have a great weekend.

-c