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  • Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction › Notes on Instructional Risk Management in the Flight Deck › Managing Risk while Teaching Landings

    Managing Risk while Teaching Landings Many complex decisions are made during the landing phase. Novice learner pilots have little experience to rely on. Instructors sometimes fall prey to teaching landings mechanically. Instead, it is necessary to convey problems and solutions ... power, control, and configuration changes) based on what is actually happening on that specific approach. When an instructor teaches mechanically, they cause the learner to be ill-equipped to identify or manage constantly changing conditions. This teaching method may result…

  • Chapter 5: The Teaching Process › Lecture Method › Preparing the Teaching Lecture

    Teaching Lecture The teaching lecture is favored by aviation instructors because it allows some active participation by the learners. In other methods of teaching such as demonstration-performance or guided discussion, the instructor receives direct reaction from the learners, either ... verbally or by some form of body language. However in the teaching lecture, the feedback is not nearly as obvious and is much harder to interpret. An effective instructor develops a keen perception for subtle responses from the class—facial…

  • Chapter 2: Human Behavior › Definitions of Human Behavior › Instructor and Learner Relationship

    while the average age of a maintenance learner is 25. Not only does personality type influence how one learns, it also influences how one teaches. Learning one’s personality type helps an instructor recognize how he or she instructs ... important to recognize personal instruction style? The match or mismatch between the way an instructor teaches and the way an individual learns contributes to instructional satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Learners whose styles are compatible with the teaching styles of an instructor…

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

    learners. Additional information on recommendations and endorsements can be found in Appendix C, Certificates, Ratings, and Endorsements. Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction Introduction Examination of accident data leads to the inevitable conclusion that many aviation accidents ... involve poor risk management decisions. Therefore, effective risk management is one of the most important skills a pilot needs to learn, understand, and practice as a habit. Since flight instructors continually deal with risk, they quickly become subject matter experts…

  • Chapter 7, Section I: Airplane Basic Flight Maneuvers › Straight-and-Level Flight › Attitude Indicator

    flight using only the attitude indicator, use the following exercise. Restrict the displacement of the horizon bar to a one-half bar width, a bar width up or down, then a one-and-one-half bar width. One-half, one ... one-and-one-half bar width nose-high attitudes are shown in Figures 7-4, 7-5, and 7-6. Figure 7-2. Pitch attitude and airspeed in level flight, fast cruise speed. Figure 7-1. Pitch attitude and airspeed…

  • 14 CFR § 61.109 Aeronautical experience.

    Aeronautical experience. must log at least 10 hours of flight training that includes at least six training flights with an authorized instructor in the areas of operation listed in § 61.107(b)(8) of this part, that includes— (1) Gas balloon ... training is being performed in a gas balloon, at least two flights of 2 hours each that consists of— (i) At least one training flight with an authorized instructor in a gas balloon in preparation for the practical test within…