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  • Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Assessment of Piloting Ability › Visualization

    Normal Challenges Instructors should teach learners how to solve ordinary problems encountered during flight. Traffic pattern congestion, change in active runway, or unexpected crosswinds are challenges the learner masters individually before being able to perform them collectively. Visualization SBT lends ... with the learner describing the progress of the flight. Then, the instructor adds unforeseen circumstances such as a sudden change in weather that brings excessive winds during final approach. Other examples of SBT can have the instructor adding undesired landing…

  • Chapter 7: Planning Instructional Activity › Scenario-Based Training (SBT) › SBT Lesson Plan

    into consideration the possible wind conditions, arrival paths, airport information and communication procedures, available runways, recommended traffic patterns, courses of action, and preparation for unexpected situations. Upon arrival at the airport, the learner makes decisions (with guidance and feedback ... following information: Flight scenario: ⦁ Scenario destination(s) ⦁ Desired learning outcomes ⦁ Desired level of learner performance ⦁ Possible inflight scenario changes Nonflight scenario: ⦁ Narrative of the task goal ⦁ Desired learning outcomes ⦁ Desired level of learner performance ⦁ Possible scenario changes Figure…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Hazard and Risk › A = Aircraft

    this aircraft equipped for the flight? Instruments? Lights? Navigation and communication equipment adequate? • Can this aircraft use the runways available for the trip with an adequate margin of safety under the conditions to be flown? • Can this aircraft carry ... weather may be different than forecast. Have alternative plans and be ready and willing to divert, should an unexpected change occur…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › Implementing the Risk Management Process › The Pave Checklist

    this aircraft equipped for the flight? Instruments? Lights? Navigation and communication equipment adequate? ⦁ Can this aircraft use the runways available for the trip with an adequate margin of safety under the conditions to be flown? ⦁ Can this aircraft carry ... weather may be different than forecast. Have alternative plans and be ready and willing to divert should an unexpected change occur. ⦁ Consider the winds at the airports being used and the strength of the crosswind component. ⦁ If flying in mountainous…

  • Chapter 7. Safety of Flight › Section 1. Meteorology › 7-1-5. Preflight Briefing

    across the nation to aircraft owners who equip with ADS-B In, with further advances coming from airborne and runway traffic awareness. Even search-and-rescue operations benefit from accurate ADS-B tracking. Flight Information Services-Broadcast ... Pilots should report good weather as well as bad, and confirm expected conditions as well as unexpected. Remember that weather conditions can change rapidly and that a “go or no go” decision, as mentioned in paragraph…

  • 28 Aviation Weather Tools › 28.3 FAA Flight Service’s Interactive Map

    then the flight proceeds to the primary alternate. If the weather unexpectedly begins to deteriorate while en route to the destination, but after transitioning to VFR, a course change may need to be made to maintain VFR. If VFR cannot ... airport, or descend no lower than the minimum en route altitude, unless the flightcrew has visual contact with the runway and can maintain VFR in VMC. D.7.2 Visual Inspection…