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  • Chapter 10: Performance Maneuvers › Introduction

    performance maneuvers serve to further develop piloting skills. Performance maneuvers enhance a pilot’s proficiency in flight control application, maneuver planning, situational awareness, and division of attention. To further that intent, performance maneuver design allows for the application of flight…

  • Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Chapter Summary

    Chapter Summary Ground reference maneuvers require planning and high levels of vigilance to ensure that the practice and performance of these maneuvers are executed where the safety to groups of people, livestock, communities, and the pilot is not compromised. While…

  • Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Maneuvering by Reference to Ground Objects

    reference maneuver should not exceed a bank angle of 45° or an airspeed greater than the maneuvering speed. As part of preflight planning, the pilot should determine the predicted (POH/AFM) stall speed at 50° or at the highest bank angle…

  • Chapter 7: Planning Instructional Activity › Lesson Plans › Lesson Plan Formats

    plan, the instructor reviews topics already covered including heading, speed, angle of bank, altitude, terrain, and wind direction plus velocity. This explanation is followed by a demonstration and repeated practice of a specific flight maneuver, such as turns around ... practicing the maneuver with assistance from the instructor. The traditional type of training lesson plan with its focus on the task and maneuver or procedure continues to meet many aviation learning requirements, but as discussed earlier in the chapter…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › The Telling-and-Doing Technique › Instructor Tells—Instructor Does

    second and third step. Instructor Tells—Instructor Does First, the flight instructor gives a carefully planned demonstration of the procedure or maneuver with accompanying verbal explanation. While demonstrating inflight maneuvers, the instructor should explain the required power settings, aircraft attitudes…

  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Flight Training › Role of the Flight Instructor

    their application of those previously learned and has their deficiencies in the previous maneuvers emphasized and made obvious. [Figure 1-7] Figure 1-7. Sample lesson plan for stall training and recovery procedures. The flying habits of the flight instructor…