FOI Flashcards
CFI
Aviation instructor responsibilities
a. Helping learners
b. Providing adequate instruction
c. Training to established standards of performance
d. emphasizing the positive
e. minimizing the learner frustrations
Flight instructor responsibilities
-make safe pilots
-ensuring student ability
-be professional
-prepare for each lesson
Flight instructor qualifications and professionalism
Professional development
always be looking to improve you own skills.
avoid complacency
Instructor ethics and conduct
Teaching risk identification, assessment and mitigation
-PAVE, IMSAFE, or FRAT
-Manage risk
–accept no unnecessary risk
–accept risk decisions at appropriate level
– integrate risk management into planning at all levels
- risk managment process
–identify hazards –> assess risk –> mitigate risk –>
How to introduce risk managment
-risk can happen at any moment
- Every flight has inherent risk
-identify with PAVE or FRAT
Managing risk during flight instruction
-always watch for birds and traffic
-use checklists
-special considerations when teaching takeoffs and landings. esp when xwind or gusty conditions exist or at busy airport
ADM
Aviate, navigate, communicate
CRM and SRM
CRM- dividing tasks when more than one person, esp for emergency
SRM- solo, ADM is important
Types of risk
Probable
Occasional
Remote
Improbable
Severity of risk
Catastrophic
Critical
Marginal
Negligible
Mitigation of risk
IMSAFE
PAVE
5 ps (plan, plane, passengers, procedure,
common obstacles to learning during flight instruction?
-feeling of unfair treatment
-Impatience to proceed to more interesting operations
-worry or lack of interest
-physical discomfort, illness, fatigue and dehydration
-apathy due to inadequate instruction
-anxiety
Demonstration and performance method
The instructor first shows the student the correct way to perform and activity and then has the student attempt the same activity
5 phases of demonstration and performance
explanation, demonstration, student performance, instructor supervision and evaluation.
Positive exchange of controls
clear understanding between student and instructors about who has control of the aircraft. Three step process
Purpose of using distractions during flight training
to determine that the student possesses the skills required to cope with distractions while maintaining the degree of aircraft control required for safe flight
Methods of assessing piloting ability
-review
-collaborative assessment
-written test
-performance based test
Hierarchy of needs
physiological needs: air, water, food, shelter, sleep.
Safety needs: personal safety,
love and belonging: friendship, family, sense of connection
esteem: respect, self esteem
self actualization: desire to better one’s self
Defense mechanisms
denial
repression
displacement
rationalization
fantasy
compensation
projection
learner emotional reactions
anxiety: fear of what to come, fear of unknown (counteract with repetition and good instruction)
stress: in the moment, healthy reaction
Types of stress
acute- short term, can be beneficial, can lead to exhaustion
chronic- constant demand, overwhelmed over a long period of time
abnormal reactions to stress
singing, laughing, nervous ticks
