Flight Instructor for Airplane Category › IX. Performance and Ground Reference Maneuvers › Task E. Ground Reference Maneuvers

AI.IX.E.S2

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Select a suitable ground reference area, line, or point as appropriate.

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Aviation Instructor's Handbook p. 6-12
Chapter 6: Assessment › Critiques and Oral Assessments › Answering Learner Questions
introduce considerations more complicated or advanced than necessary to completely answer a learner’s question at the current point in training. In this case, the instructor should carefully explain to the learner that the question was good and pertinent ... time, unnecessarily complicate the learning tasks. The instructor should invite the learner to reintroduce the question later at the appropriate point in training. Occasionally, a learner asks a question that the instructor cannot answer. In such cases, the instructor should…
Aviation Instructor's Handbook p. 10-9
Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction › Notes on Instructional Risk Management in the Flight Deck › Managing Risk while Teaching Landings
made mechanically either. It is the instructor’s responsibility to teach the learner how to pick appropriate aiming and touchdown points based on the type of aircraft, the landing being attempted, the environment and conditions present, and the expected landing…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 7-8
Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Turns Around a Point
point, the pilot should select a prominent, ground-based reference that is easily distinguishable yet small enough to present a precise reference. The pilot should enter the maneuver downwind, where the groundspeed is at its fastest, at the appropriate radius…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 7-1
Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Introduction
along an appropriate course relative to objects on the ground. This skill is the basis for traffic patterns, survey, photographic, sight-seeing, aerial application (crop dusting), and various other flight profiles requiring specific flightpaths referenced to points on the surface…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 3-6
Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Integrated Flight Instruction
skill to quickly analyze the appropriate flight instruments and then immediately return to the visual outside references to control the airplane’s attitude. The pilot should become familiar with the relationship between outside visual references to the natural horizon ... corresponding flight instrument indications. For example, a pitch attitude adjustment may require a movement of the pilot’s reference point of several inches in relation to the natural horizon but correspond to a seemingly insignificant movement of the reference…
Aeronautical Information Manual p. 5-6-3
Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 6. National Security and Interception Procedures › 5-6-4. ADIZ Requirements
flights in controlled airspace. The pilot must maintain a continuous watch on the appropriate frequency and report the time and altitude of passing each designated reporting point or those reporting points specified or requested by ATC, except that while ... aircraft passed the last reporting point before penetration and the estimated time of arrival over the next appropriate reporting point along the flight route; (b) If there is no appropriate reporting point along the flight route, the pilot reports…