Chapter 8

Instructor Responsibilities

and

Professionalism

Responsibilities

• Help students learn

• Provide adequate instruction

• Demand Standards of Performance

• Emphasize the positive

Helping Students Learn

• Make it enjoyable

• Make it satisfying

• Make it interesting

• Make it challenging

• Make it right

Helping Students Learn

• Devise plan of action

• Create positive student-instructor relation

• Present information effectively

• Transfer responsibility for learning to student

• Evaluate

Provide adequate instruction

• Analyze student

• Adjust training as appropriate

Standards of Performance

• High and correct standards

Emphasize the positive

• Learning should be fun

• Scenarios– Stalls kill people

Flight Instructor Responsibilities

• Evaluation of Student Piloting Ability– Did learning occur?

– Keep students informed of progress.

– Demonstrate properly.

– Do not take over controls.

Flight Instructor Responsibilities

• Pilot Supervision– Proper training

– Solo operations

– All 1st solo landings to a full stop

Flight Instructor Responsibilities

• Practical test recommendations– Procedures outlined in PTS

• Flight Instructor Endorsements– AC 61-65 Certification: Pilots and Flight

Instructors– FAA Form 8710-1 Airman Certification

and/or Rating Application

Flight Instructor Responsibilities

• Additional Training and Endorsements– AC 61-98 Currency and Additional

Qualification Requirements for Certificated Pilots

– Flight Reviews– Instrument Proficiency Checks

Flight Instructor Responsibilities

– Aircraft Checkouts/Transitions

• Pilot Proficiency– AC 61-91 Pilot Proficiency Award

Program

Download Advisory Circulars

• http://www.aea200.ea.faa.gov/ea01/advisorycirculars.htm

Professionalism

• Sincerity

• Acceptance of the student

• Personal appearance and habits

• Demeanor

• Safety Practices and Accident Prevention

• Language

Professionalism

• Self Improvement

• Minimizing student frustrations– Motivate students

– Keep students informed

– Approach students as individuals

– Give credit where credit is due

– Criticize constructively

– Be consistent and admit errors

Aeronautical Decision Making• Aeronautical decision making for student

and private pilots 629.13252 N277s

• Aeronautical decision making for instrument pilots629.13252 N277in

• Aeronautical decision making for commercial pilots 629.13252 N277c

• Aeronautical decision making for instructor pilots 629.13252 N277i