General:
- Plateau(s):
- 5 learning plateaus, and how to solve them.
- Dealing with pilot progression plateau. (AOPA vid)
- 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.
- 52 years of teaching landings. (Rod Machado vid).
- 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
- 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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