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  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Postflight Evaluation › First Solo Flight

    First Solo Flight During the learner’s first solo flight, the instructor needs to be present to assist in answering questions or resolving any issues that arise during the flight. To ensure the solo flight is a positive, confidence-building ... experience for the learner, the flight instructor needs to consider time of day when scheduling the flight. Time of day is a factor in traffic congestion, possible winds, sun angles, and reflection. If possible, the flight instructor needs access…

  • Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction › Introduction

    Chapter Summary This chapter discussed the demonstration-performance and telling-and-doing training delivery methods of flight instruction, SBT techniques, practical strategies flight instructors can use to enhance their instruction, integrated flight instruction, positive exchange of flight controls ... distractions, simulators and flight training devices, obstacles to learning encountered during flight training, and how to evaluate learners. Additional information on recommendations and endorsements can be found in Appendix C, Certificates, Ratings, and Endorsements. Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management…

  • Chapter 3: The Learning Process › Characteristics of Learning › Learning Is Multifaceted

    Individuals learn much more than expected if they fully exercise their minds and feelings. The fact that these items were not included in the instructor’s plan does not prevent them from influencing the learning situation. Psychologists sometimes classify learning ... Other classifications refer to intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, and attitudinal changes, along with descriptive terms like surface or deep learning. However useful these divisions may be, they are somewhat artificial. For example, a class learning to apply the scientific method…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Integrating Instruction Techniques › On-Aircraft Training

    Aircraft Training On-aircraft training is the continuation of work that is initiated on the ground and part of the integrated training process. As indicated in Chapter 7, Planning Instructional Activity, the instructor must plan the flight given ... same extent as the learner who prepares for it. Just as it is important to have objectives for ground instruction, it is equally important that the flight instruction have objectives and a syllabus paired with previous instruction given…

  • Chapter 5: The Teaching Process › Electronic Learning (E-Learning)

    With e-learning, sophisticated databases can organize vast amounts of information that can be quickly sorted, searched, found, and cross-indexed. Figure 5-12. E-learning encompasses a variety of electronic educational media. The active nature of e-learning enhances ... overall learning process several ways. Well-designed programs allow learners to feel more in control of the content and how fast they learn it. They can explore areas of interest and discover more about a subject on their…

  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Sterile Flight Deck Rule

    Sterile Flight Deck Rule Commonly known as the “sterile flight deck rule,” Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 121, section 121.542 requires airline flight crewmembers to refrain from nonessential activities during critical phases of flight ... defined in the regulation, critical phases of flight are all ground operations involving taxi, takeoff, and landing, and all other flight operations below 10,000 feet except cruise flight. Nonessential activities include such activities as eating, reading a newspaper…