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  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Flight Instructor Responsibilities

    Flight Instructor Responsibilities Learning to fly should provide learners with an opportunity for exploration and experimentation. It should be a habit-building period during which learners devote their attention, memory, and judgment to the development of correct habit patterns ... aviation instructors shoulder an enormous responsibility because their learners will ultimately be flying, servicing, or repairing aircraft. Flight instructors may have the additional responsibility regarding evaluation of learner pilots and deciding when they are ready to solo. The flight instructor…

  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Aviation Instructor Responsibilities

    Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism Introduction Since learners look to aviation instructors as role models, it is important that instructors not only know how to teach, but that they project a knowledgeable and professional image. This chapter addresses ... responsibilities of aviation instructors as trainers and as safety advocates. It explains how aviation instructors can enhance their professional image, and offers suggestions and sources of information to assist in professional development. Aviation Instructor Responsibilities The job of an aviation…

  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Flight Instructor Responsibilities › Ensuring Learner Skill Set

    should be current on the latest procedures regarding pilot training, certification, and safety. It is the flight instructor’s responsibility to maintain a current library of information. These sources are listed in the appropriate ACS/PTS, and other sources…

  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Aviation Instructor Responsibilities › Providing Adequate Instruction

    practical psychologist. As discussed in Chapters 2, Human Behavior, and 3, The Learning Process, an instructor can meet this responsibility by becoming familiar and conversant in the fundamentals of instructing and through a careful analysis of and continuing interest ... minded and seek other resources and information to develop enhanced teaching ability. Standards of Performance An aviation instructor is responsible for training an applicant to established standards in all subject matter areas, procedures, and maneuvers included in the tasks within…

  • Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Learner Emotional Reactions › Abnormal Reactions to Stress

    Abnormal Reactions to Stress Reactions to stress may produce abnormal responses in some people. With them, response to anxiety or stress may be completely absent or at least inadequate. Their responses may be random or illogical, or they ... anger directed toward the flight instructor, service personnel, and others. In difficult situations, flight instructors should carefully examine learner responses and their own responses to the learners. These responses may be the normal products of a complex learning situation…

  • Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Upset Prevention and Recovery › Surprise and Startle Response

    Aerospace Medicine Reference Collection, which provides spatial disorientation videos. The videos are available online at: www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/cami/library/online_libraries/aerospace_medicine/sd/videos/. Surprise and Startle Response Surprise is an unexpected event that violates a pilot’s expectations and can affect the mental processes used ... even ignored during flight training. The reality is that untrained pilots often experience a state of surprise or a startle response to an airplane upset event. Startle may or may not lead to surprise. Pilots can protect themselves against…