FOI

Question 1

Aviation instructor responsibilities

Answer 1

a. Helping learners
b. Providing adequate instruction
c. Training to established standards of performance
d. emphasizing the positive
e. minimizing the learner frustrations

Question 2

Flight instructor responsibilities

Answer 2

-make safe pilots
-ensuring student ability
-be professional
-prepare for each lesson

Question 3

Flight instructor qualifications and professionalism

Question 4

Professional development

Answer 4

always be looking to improve you own skills.
avoid complacency

Question 5

Instructor ethics and conduct

Question 6

Teaching risk identification, assessment and mitigation

Answer 6

-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 –>

Question 7

How to introduce risk managment

Answer 7

-risk can happen at any moment
- Every flight has inherent risk
-identify with PAVE or FRAT

Question 8

Managing risk during flight instruction

Answer 8

-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

Question 9

ADM

Answer 9

Aviate, navigate, communicate

Question 10

CRM and SRM

Answer 10

CRM- dividing tasks when more than one person, esp for emergency
SRM- solo, ADM is important

Question 11

Types of risk

Answer 11

Probable
Occasional
Remote
Improbable

Question 12

Severity of risk

Answer 12

Catastrophic
Critical
Marginal
Negligible

Question 13

Mitigation of risk

Answer 13

IMSAFE
PAVE
5 ps (plan, plane, passengers, procedure,

Question 14

common obstacles to learning during flight instruction?

Answer 14

-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

Question 15

Demonstration and performance method

Answer 15

The instructor first shows the student the correct way to perform and activity and then has the student attempt the same activity

Question 16

5 phases of demonstration and performance

Answer 16

explanation, demonstration, student performance, instructor supervision and evaluation.

Question 17

Positive exchange of controls

Answer 17

clear understanding between student and instructors about who has control of the aircraft. Three step process

Question 18

Purpose of using distractions during flight training

Answer 18

to determine that the student possesses the skills required to cope with distractions while maintaining the degree of aircraft control required for safe flight

Question 19

Methods of assessing piloting ability

Answer 19

-review
-collaborative assessment
-written test
-performance based test

Question 20

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Defense mechanisms

Answer 21

denial
repression
displacement
rationalization
fantasy
compensation
projection

Question 22

learner emotional reactions

Answer 22

anxiety: fear of what to come, fear of unknown (counteract with repetition and good instruction)

stress: in the moment, healthy reaction

Question 23

Types of stress

Answer 23

acute- short term, can be beneficial, can lead to exhaustion
chronic- constant demand, overwhelmed over a long period of time

Question 24

abnormal reactions to stress

Answer 24

singing, laughing, nervous ticks

Question 25

basic elements to effective communication

Answer 25

Source–> instructor
symbol–> material
receiver–>student

Question 26

Barriers to effective communication

Answer 26

confusion-
overuse of abstractions-
interference-
lack of common experience-

Question 27

ways to overcome barriers of communication

Answer 27

-find common ground with student and their motivation
-simple question and answer
-instructor study material beforehand
-chairfly

Question 28

developing communication skills

Answer 28

-listening
-instructor communication
-questions
-roleplaying

Question 29

Laws of learning

Answer 29

Readiness
effect
exercise
primacy
intensity
recency

Question 30

Levels of learning

Answer 30

Rote
Understanding
Application
Correlation

Question 31

Characteristics of learning

Answer 31

Purposeful- need a goal
Experience-
multifaceted- more than one media
active process- explain and do

Question 32

types of learning

Answer 32

deliberate
blocked
random

Question 33

Scenario based learning

Answer 33

set clear objectives
tailored to the needs of the learner

Question 34

Types of errors

Answer 34

slip- happens once
mistake- happens on purpose but unknowing its wrong

Question 35

Types of memory

Answer 35

sensory- initial stimulus
long term-
short term- rapid recall

Question 36

Types of forgetting

Answer 36

-retrieval failure- “tip of the tongue”
-fading- overtime
-interference- other experience
-repression or suppression- don’t want to remember

Question 37

Retention of learning

Answer 37

repetition
praise association of another item
favorable attitude

Question 38

The learning process

Answer 38

perceptions into meaningful whole

Question 39

Domains of learning

Answer 39

cognitive- thinking
Affective- feeling
Psychomotor-doing