Instruction

General:

• 5 learning plateaus, and how to solve them.
• 5-Step Teaching Process (Rob Machado)
• Identify the BIG PICTURE
• Define the objectives in behavioral terms
• Simulate Experience
• Identify/share the clues you use
• Critique behavior not the student (avoid "you")
• 6 hardest maneuvers to teach as a CFI.
• 6 tips to becoming a good CFI.
• 6 ways to help someone become a pilot.
• 7 times you should cancel a flight lesson.
• Always teach a correlation so there's a "why".
• BAD INSTRUCTORS: how they behave and why you should know.
• Coaching vs Teaching. (NAFI).
• Creative Teaching Techniques - J. Schappert.
• Defensive positioning: What to do when you fly with another pilot.
• Do no harm - the moral imperative of instruction. (NAFI).
• Flying with good and bad pilots—what I’ve learned as a new CFI. (Air Facts).
• From the locker room to the cockpit. (NAFI).
• How to learn from your mistakes.
• I have the flight controls - my airplane. (NAFI).
• Leveraging Decision Models. (NAFI).
• Mindful Flight Instruction. (NAFI).
• Owning your errors.
• Rote learning. Get the ROT out of ROTE. (NAFI).
• Students, in general
• Encourage nervous students
• Identify and overcome challenges specific to each student
• Nervous students
• They’re nervous when they don’t know what is going to happen
• Share a common goal with students
• Student knowledge versus memorization
• Teaching the Type-A overachiever. (NAFI).
• Those returning to flying
• It’s best to evaluate where they are yourself (vice a handoff)
• Students, successful traits
• Self-awareness
• Aware of their strengths and weaknesses
• Proactivity
• Understand they can control the outcome of a situation
• Perseverance
• Those who can adapt methodology of attaining goals, vice giving up
• Goal setting
• Effective support systems
• Establishing PRORELs with students is important
• Emotional coping strategies

Briefs/Debriefs: - separate page.

Endorsements / Logbooks:

• FAA Circular.
• Logging time (instrument training)
• Log something to the effect of "Sim IMC w/ VLD for 61.129(a)(3)(i)". This will save people a headache down the road if they try to get a commercial rating.
• Solo
• Understanding basic solo requirements.
• Understanding solo cross-country requirements.
• Sporty's and NAFI's Instructor Guide to Endorsements.

Flight Reviews:

• Conducting effective Flight Reviews and IPCs. (Turner video).
• See also Flight Reviews.

Private:

Instrument:

Commercial:

• 6 things you need to know about common carriage.
• Six things to learn from the best commercial pilots.

CFI:

• CFI Syllabus, 2015 (ASA)

CFII:

Maneuvers:

• Base to final turn. (NAFI).

MEI:

Systems / Equipment:

• Guide to Better GPS Instruction. (Gary Reeves, NAFI Vid)

Visual Flight:

• How to enforce it (in MET).

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