CFI Refreshers Flashcards
List the Aviation Instructor Responsibilities
HDEEP Help students learn Demand adequate performance Emphasize the positive Ensure safety Provide excellent instruction
CFI Privilages
61.193
We are authorized to train and issue endorsements that are within the limitations of our OWN flight instructor certificate and ratings
(If I can’t/haven’t done it, I cannot endorse someone else to do it - knowledge or practical test wise)
CFI Limitations
- 195
- No more than 8 hrs instruction in a 24 hr period
- Must hold CFI AND Pilot’s Cert with applicable Category AND Class ratings to conduct flight training
- Cannot self endorse
Steep Turn ACS Standards for a Private Pilot Applicant
+/- 100 feet
+/- 10 knots of a speed not exceeding Va
+/- 5 deg bank (45)
+/- 10 deg heading
Short Field Landing Standards for a Private Pilot Applicant
+200 feet/-0 feet
+10 knots/-5 knots
Short Field Landing Standards for a Commercial Pilot Applicant
Touch down within 100’ beyond or on the specified point
Laws of Learning
REEPIR Recency Exercise Effect Primacy Intensity Readiness
Characteristics of Learning
RAMP Result of an Experience Active Processes Multifaceted Purposeful
What Endorsements are required for student pilot initial solo?
- 87(b)
- Presolo knowledge exam for make/model - 87(d)
- Received presolo training, demonstrated proficiency, and is proficient in make/model
* *add limitations as needed** - 87(p)
- Additional 90-Day Endorsement
These endorse the student to fly within 25NM of the home airport
What Endorsements are required for student pilot Solo-XC?
61.93(e-m) of what is applicable!
Route endorsement for that day, reviewed and approved!
What Endorsements are required for your student to go in for the Instrument Checkride?
- 39(a)(6)(i and ii)
- student has received/logged training within 2 cal month preceding month of practical - 35(a)(1), 61.65(a)(b)
- Instrument written endorsement - 39(a)(6)(iii)
- Written Deficiencies - 65(a)(6)
- Flight proficiency/actual practical test endorsement
Short Field Landing Standards for a Private Pilot Applicant
Touch down within 200’ beyond or on the specified point
Power-Off 180 Landing Standards for a Commercial Pilot Applicant
Touch down within 200’ beyond or on the specified point
What are the 8 defense mechanisms?
Repression Reaction Formation Rationalization Denial Displacement Compensation Projection Fantasy
List 4 obstacles to learning you or your student may experience?
- Anxiety
- Impatience
- Physical needs not met
- Apathy due to inadequate instructor
List 5 characteristic of Professionalism
Sincerity Accept the student Demeanor Personal Appearance/Habits Language
7 ways to minimize student frustration?
MACKBAG Motivate the student Approach student as an individual Constructive criticism Keep them Informed Be Consistent Admit your own errors Give them credit
List 4 additional Flight Instructor Responsibilities
- Pilot supervision
- Evaluation of student
- Endorsements
- See and Avoid
Hazardous Attitudes and their antidotes
Anti-Authority - The rules are there for a reason!
Impulsive - Think first!
Invulnerability - It can happen to you!
Macho - Taking chances is foolish
Resignation - You can make a difference
Purpose of a Mode C Veil?
Airspace within 30NM of a class B airport - A/c operating within the Veil must be equipped with automatic pressure altitude reporting equipment having Mode C Capability (mode C alt transmissions are independent of barometric setting)
Where are Warning Areas?
Airspace extending from 3NM outward from the coast of the US that “contains activity that may be hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft”
Can be active or inactive…your responsibility to check and plan accordingly.
to be treated like a Restricted Area, NOT like an MOA
Flying over water? What are the rules?
- 509
- 50NM form nearest coast = life preserver/flotation device for each occupant, etc.
Certs and Docs required for a/c Airworthiness
GMARROW SP
GPS manual (supplements) MEL Airworthiness Certificate (inspections) Registration (Federal/State) Radio License Operating Handbook (POH) Weight and Balance
Supplemental docs
Placards
What inspections must be completed to maintain Airworthiness
(AV1ATE) Annual VOR (IFR) 100 hour (for hire) Altimeter/pitot static (IFR) Transponder ELT
Does the Federal Registration expire?
Every 3 years or: 30 days after death of owner Foreign Transfer of ownership Destroyed US citizen Cancelled
Airworthiness Directives
Issued by the FAA
- One time
- Recurrent
- Urgent/Non-Urgent
Service Bulletins are issued by the:
Manufacturer
You don’t have an MEL and you find something inoperative during preflight. What do you do?
- 213
- VFR Day Type Cert (instruments/equipment prescribed)
- Kinds of Operations Equipment List
- 91.205
- Airworthiness Directives
Removed, disabled, placarded if you can still go.
How often are TAFs issued and what is their valid period?
4x a day
24-30 hours
What does AO2 mean in a METAR
The station is automated and has the ability to discriminate between percipitation
What does SLP mean in a METAR
Sea level pressure given in Millibars
What is the difference between FROM and BECOMING
From = Fast change Becoming = Slow change
When is a TEMPO issued
(usually issued for 3 hours time frame)
50% change or greater of occurring
Wont last more than half the time that the TEMP covers
Wont last more than 1 hour for each wx phenomena
On the winds aloft charts, when will wind and temps NOT be published?
No WINDS if the station is within 1,500’ of the MSL altitude
No TEMP if the station is within 2,500’ of the MSL altitude
When Isobars are closer together, what kind of winds can we expect? (weak or strong)
Strong winds
decode 731960
If the wind speed is forecast to be from 100 to 199 kt., the forecaster will add 50 to the wind direction and subtract 100 from the wind speed. To decode, you must subtract 50 from the wind direction and add 100 to the wind speed.
731960
The wind is from 230° true (73 − 50 = 23) at 119 kt. (100 +
19 = 119), and the temperature is −60°C
When are AIRMETs issued and how long are they valid?
4x a day
Valid for 6 hours
info is of operational interest of all a/c, especially light a/c
When are SIGMETs issued and how long are they valid?
Unscheduled/Issued as needed
Valid 4 hours unless relating to a Hurricane then it is valid for 6 hours
- Severe icing, turbulence
- Sandstorms
- Ash
- Severe
Valid for 4 hours
potentially hazardous to all a/c
What are the criteria for a Convective Sigmet? How long are they valid?
Severe thunderstorms
Surface winds 50 knots +
Hail 3/4in diameter or greater
Tornadoes
Embedded/lines of thunderstorms
Tstorms with heavy or greater percip affecting 40%+ of a 3,000 square mile+ region
Valid for 2 hours!
What can be used not instead of the Area Forecast (FA)
the Graphical Area Forecast tool on aviationweather.gov
What are the stages of a Thunderstorm and their characteristics?
- Cumulus - Updrafts
- Mature - Rain begins
- Dissipating - Downdrafts
Characteristics of a stable atmosphere
Steady rain
Stratiform clouds
Poor visibility
Smooth air
What is a fun acronym to remember some of the illusions
(ICEFLAGS)
Inversion - climb to a rapid level off creates tumbling sensation
Coriolis - constant bank turn, and a head movement in another plane
Elevator - from up/downdrafts
False Horizon
Leans
Autokinesis - Rods interpreting lights moving
Graveyard
Somatogravic
What are the 3 sensory systems that can create illusions
Somatogravic
Vestibular
Ocular
What are the O2 regulations?
12,500’: RFC for durations over 30 mins
14,000’: RFC must wear at all times
15,000’: RCF must wear at all times, all pax must have it provided
How long must you wait to fly after scuba diving?
24 hours after a controlled dive
12 hours after an uncontrolled dive
