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  • Chapter 5: The Teaching Process › Instructor's Code of Ethics

    privilege of flight. These concepts are also part of the Flight Instructors Model Code of Conduct (FIMCC), designed to enhance flight and ground instructor safety and professionalism. Developed by a diverse team of aviation professionals and extensively peer-reviewed within ... found at www.secureav.com. such as the Aviator’s Model Code of Conduct and a Student Pilot’s Model Code of Conduct. The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) and the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE), as well…

  • Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Developing Communication Skills › Role Playing

    instructional communication comes from actually doing it and is learned in the beginning by role playing during the instructor’s initial training. For example, a flight instructor applicant can fly with a flight instructor who assumes the role ... learner pilot. In this role, the flight instructor can duplicate known learner responses and then critique the applicant’s role as instructor. A mentor or supervisor can play the learner AMT for a maintenance instructor applicant. It is essential…

  • Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Continuing Education › Government

    Accomplishing the requirements of the certificate is evidence the instructor has performed at a very high level as a flight instructor. See AC 61-65, Certification: Pilots and Flight and Ground Instructors, for a list of requirements for earning this ... certificate. Similarly, the Aviation Maintenance Awards Program affords the aviation maintenance instructor the opportunity for increased education through attendance at FAA or industry maintenance training seminars. Details for the awarding of bronze through diamond pins can be found…

  • 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 Qualifications

    best actions a flight or maintenance instructor can take to enhance aviation safety is to emphasize safety by example. Another way for the instructor to advocate safety is to partner with the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam). The FAASTeam is dedicated ... record by conveying safety principles and practices through training, outreach, and education. More information is available at FAASafety.gov. Flight Instructor Qualifications A flight instructor needs to be thoroughly familiar with the functions, characteristics, and proper use of all flight instruments…

  • Chapter 4: Effective Communication › Developing Communication Skills › Instructional Enhancement

    Perception checking gets to the feelings of the learner, again by stating what perceptions the instructor has of the behavior that the learner can then clarify as necessary. Since it is important that the instructor understand as much as possible ... about the learners, instructors can be much more effective by using improved listening skills and effective questions to help in putting themselves in the place of the learners. Questions should be phrased to focus the learner on the decision-making…