Every professional maintains professional memberships. Membership dues are $50-60/year. Cheaper than an hour’s worth of flight instruction! But they will give you so much value in return. Their monthly magazine, Flying, and the quarterly Mentor is full of educational articles by the flight instructors for the flight instructors. And they offer a Professional Development Program. Oh, and the membership comes with typical discounts on Aviation Products. S.A.F.E. is the estranged stepbrother of NAFI. Once upon a time NAFI went off the track and followed AOPA’s lead of whining and dining at the membership’s expense. But they did turn around real quick, thanks to SAFE. I have no personal experience with them, but the founders JoAnn and Sandy Hill were the original founders of NAFI as well. Really good people.