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• Aviation Instructor's Handbookp. 5-1
  Chapter 5: The Teaching Process › Essential Teaching Skills › People Skills

  remember: ⦁ Technical knowledge is useless if the instructor fails to communicate it effectively. ⦁ The two-way process of effective communication includes actively listening to the learner. Figure 5-1. Aviation instructors organize course material and use procedures and methods that ... People skills also include the ability to interact respectfully, pick up when learners are not following along, provide motivation, and adapt to the needs of the learner when necessary. Another important people skill used by effective instructors is to challenge…

• Aviation Instructor's Handbookp. 4-6
  Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Barriers to Effective Communication › External Factors

  These factors may include physiological, environmental, and psychological elements. To communicate effectively, the instructor should consider the effects of these factors and mitigate them where possible. Physiological external factors include biological conditions such as hearing loss, injury, physical illness…

• Aviation Instructor's Handbookp. 4-6
  Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Barriers to Effective Communication › Overuse of Abstractions

  control that prevent a process or activity from being carried out properly. These factors may include physiological, environmental, and psychological elements. To communicate effectively, the instructor should consider the effects of these factors and mitigate them where possible…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 1-23
  Chapter 1: Introduction To Flying › Who Administers the FAA Practical Tests? › Role of the Certificated Flight Instructor

  training includes airmanship skills, pilot judgment and decision-making, and good operating practices. A pilot training program depends on the quality of the ground and flight instruction the student pilot receives. The flight instructor must possess a thorough understanding ... knowledge of the fundamentals of teaching, and the ability to communicate effectively with the student pilot. Use of a structured training program and formal course syllabus is crucial for effective and comprehensive flight training. It should be clear…

• Aviation Instructor's Handbookp. 4-2
  Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Basic Elements of Communication › Symbols

  TAWS with a new maintenance learner or learner pilot respectively, effective communication would be difficult if not impossible. Second, communicators consciously or unconsciously reveal information about themselves. This includes their self-image, their view of the ideas being communicated ... that the receivers have a need to know the ideas presented. Third, successful communicators speak or write from accurate, up-to-date, and stimulating material. Communicators should convey the most current and interesting information available. Doing so holds the receiver…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 1-19
  Chapter 1: Introduction To Flying › Selecting a Flight School › How To Choose a Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI)

  should possess an understanding of the learning process, knowledge of the fundamentals of teaching, and the ability to communicate effectively with the student pilot. During the certification process, a flight instructor applicant is tested on the practical application of these ... learning environment as an advisor and guide for the learner. The duties, responsibilities, and authority of the CFI include the following: • Orient the student to the scenario-based training system • Help the student become a confident planner and inflight manager…