Task F - Techniques of Flight Instruction

Question 1

What are some obstacles to learning during flight instruction?

Answer 1

• unfair treatment
• impatience
• worry or lack of interest
• physical discomfort, illness, fatigue
• apathy
• anxiety

Question 2

What are the 5 phases of the demonstration-performance training method?

Answer 2

1. explanation
2. demonstration
3. student performance
4. supervision
5. evaluation

Question 3

What is the sterile cockpit rule?

Answer 3

• 121.542
• pilots should refrain from nonessential activities during critical phases of flight
• ex. takeoff, landing, below 10,000 ft

Question 4

What role does distractions play in flight instruction?

Answer 4

• performing tasks that are secondary to controlling the aircraft can increase risk
• instructor’s responsibility to teach student how to divide attention while in the cockpit

Question 5

Define integrated flight instruction

Answer 5

• students are taught to perform a maneuver by reference to instruments as well as by reference to outside

Question 6

Why is assessment of the student piloting ability an important part of flight instruction?

Answer 6

• helps determine what students know, how they learn, and well they have learned
• important to keep student informed

Question 7

Define aeronautical decision making

Answer 7

• a systematic approach to the mental process used by pilots to consistently determine the best course of action to a given set of circumstances

Question 8

What are the basic steps to the decision making process?

Answer 8

DECIDE
Detect
Estimate
Choose 
Identify
Do
Evaluate

Question 9

What are the 5 hazardous attitudes and what are their antidotes?

Answer 9

1. Anti-authority - follow the rules, they are usually right
2. Impulsivity - slow down, think first
3. Invulnerability - it could happen to me
4. Macho - taking chances is foolish
5. Resignation - i can make a difference