What is the primary purpose of preflight planning and postflight debrief in a CFI session?

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Safety and risk management drive both preflight planning and postflight debrief. Before flight, you systematically check weather, winds, fuel, weight and balance, performance expectations, aircraft status, and potential alternates. This helps you identify hazards up front, evaluate whether the flight is advisable, and decide on any necessary changes or contingencies to keep the operation safe. After the flight, the debrief centers on what happened with a focus on safety-critical decisions, procedural adherence, and any safety issues that arose, so you can address them, reinforce good habits, and prevent recurrence. While reviewing objectives or assessing how the flight went can occur in the process, the main purpose of planning and debrief is to protect people and aircraft by managing risk and maintaining a safety culture.