CAA Instructor Seminar

2013

Introduction and discussion

Importance and practical value of P of L

Nine in the IT Course syllabus: Review?

Intensity, Reinforcement, Exercise,

Primacy, Recency, Effect, Feedback,

Belonging and Readiness

Think like a student

Bill Kershner: “What, Why and How”

Workshop Exercise

We will break into groups

Each group will have a few basic lessons

Your task is to encapsulate in one or

two sentences why each lesson is taught.

LessonsEffects of Controls

Straight and Level

Medium Turns

Stalling

Slow Flight

The Circuit

Crosswind Take offs and Landings

Steep Turns

Short (or Precision) Take offs and Landings

Glide Approach

Maximum Rate Turns

Workshop ReviewEffects of Controls

Not an introduction to attitude flying, datum…..

Your student wants to get their hands on the controls; let them!

Let the student feel what it is like to control an aircraft in the air.

Flying is fun!

Workshop ReviewStraight and Level

Straight & level; Cruise; A to B

Consolidation of E of C. Belonging

Attitude recognition

Trimming

Workshop ReviewMedium Turns

To change direction

Balance

Coordination of controls

Workshop ReviewStalling

Stalling is not taught so that you become highly proficient at it

It’s so that you will recognise the behaviour of an aircraft which is about to stall; and

In the event that you do inadvertently stall

You react instinctively with the correct recovery actions

Workshop ReviewSlow Flight

Awareness exercise

Handling characteristics at abnormally low speeds

Recognition of approach to stall

Recovery to safe flying speed

Accuracy when the margin is minimal

Confidence builder

Workshop ReviewThe Circuit

Consolidation of all previous lessons in a disciplined traffic pattern

Techniques and handling skills required in Taking off and Landing

Workshop ReviewCrosswind Take offs and

Landings

The wind is not aligned with the runway

Building on T/O & Landing skills

Technique, coordination,

Advanced skill, precision

Workshop ReviewSteep Turns

To change direction rapidlyBuilding on Medium TurnsCoordinationPositive control

Workshop ReviewShort (Precision) T/Os and

Landings

When will this skill be required?

CH, WN, HN, AA?

Minimum field length available

Uncertain of surface

Precautionary landing

Emergency procedure?

Workshop ReviewGlide Approach

Last thousand feet of a FLWoP

Judgement practice

Start point? I.e:When should you close the throttle?

Workshop ReviewMaximum Rate Turns

Two possibles:

1.Handling skill

2.Collision avoidance (Emergency procedure)

3.Teach both:

4.360 degree turns, roll out on reference point

5.180 degree turn, no delay!

SummaryYou are not teaching someone

to fly

You are training a pilot

Principles of Learning

What, Why and How