FI.I.F.S2b
SkillIdentify, assess, and mitigate risks commonly associated with flight instruction by maintaining:
Awareness of the learner’s cognitive/physiological state, with timely action to mitigate anxiety, fatigue, or other obstruction to learning
From the FAA library
- Chapter 5: Mitigating Risk › Preflight Risk Mitigation Strategies › Mitigating Aircraft Risks
Mitigating Aircraft Risks Introduction Risk mitigation reduces the likelihood or predicted severity of potential effects of hazards. As discussed in Chapter 4, Assessing Risk, high (red) and serious (yellow) risks should be mitigated. High risks the pilot cannot mitigate should ... lead to a no-go decision. Departing with serious risks is also an abnormal situation that calls for additional mitigation. The risk mitigation process may start days or weeks before a flight and depends on the complexity of the plan…
- Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction › Poor Risk Management and Accident Causality › Mitigating Risk
Instructors can plan to introduce scenarios in-flight that simulate hazards and ask the learner to practice how to identify, assess, and mitigate. The final step in risk mitigation is to consider whether or not to accept the remaining risk ... pilot accomplishes this step consciously and on behalf of any passengers. During flight instruction, the instructor mitigates the risk associated with a learner's actions by operating at a safe altitude and by guarding the controls. The instructor consciously accepts…
- Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Learner Emotional Reactions › Flight Instructor Actions Regarding Seriously Abnormal Learners
Flight Instructor Actions Regarding Seriously Abnormal Learners A flight instructor who believes a learner may be suffering from a serious psychological abnormality has a responsibility to refrain from instructing that learner. In addition, a flight instructor has the personal responsibility ... become certificated as a pilot. To accomplish this, the following steps are available: ⦁ If an instructor believes that a learner may have a disqualifying psychological defect, arrangements should be made for another instructor, who is not acquainted with the learner…
- Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Flight Instructor Responsibilities › Ensuring Learner Skill Set
Physiological Obstacles for Flight Learners Although most learner pilots have been exposed to air travel, they may not have flown in light, training aircraft. Consequently, learners may react to unfamiliar noises or vibrations, or experience unfamiliar sensations ... stomach. To teach effectively, instructors cannot ignore the existence of these negative factors, nor should they ridicule learners who are adversely affected. These negative sensations can usually be overcome by understanding the nature of their causes. Remember, a sick learner…
- Chapter 8: Aviation Instructor Responsibilities and Professionalism › Professionalism › Acceptance of the Learner
Sincerity An aviation learner normally accepts a competent instructor as a teacher. However, the aviation instructor should be straightforward and honest at all times. Attempting to hide inadequacy behind a smokescreen of unrelated instruction makes it impossible for the instructor ... command the respect and full attention of a learner. Any facade of instructor pretentiousness, whether it is real or mistakenly presumed, causes the learner to lose confidence in the instructor and adversely affects learning. Acceptance of the Learner The instructor…
- Chapter 11: Helicopter Emergencies and Hazards › System Malfunctions › Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (LTE)
note them, and then to associate them with situations that should be avoided. Whenever possible, pilots should learn to avoid the following combinations: 1. Low and slow flight outside of ground effect. 2. Winds from ±15º ... downwind turns. 5. Large changes of power at low airspeeds. 6. Low speed flight in the proximity of physical obstructions that may alter a smooth airflow to both the main rotor and tail rotor. Pilots who put themselves in situations…