What are an aviation instructor’s responsibilities?
- Help students learn
- Provide adequate instruction
- Train applicant to standards
- Minimize student frustration
How do you minimize student frustration?
PACKGAMEC
- Praise in public
- Approach students as individuals
- Criticize constructively
- Keep students informed
- Give credit when due
- Admit errors
- Motivate the student
- Emphasize the positive
- Consistency
What are a flight instructor’s responsibilities?
PEPE
- Physiological obstacles for students
- Ensuring student ability
- Professionalism
- Evaluation of student
- Physiological obstacles for students
Explain the causes of unfamiliar noises or vibrations
Ensuring student ability
SEERSS
- Student safety
- Evaluate performance constantly
- Evaluation during and after maneuvers
- Ready for solo
- Share evaluations with student
- Supervision
Professionalism
PS PADS
- Personal appearance
- Sincerity
- Punctuality
- Acceptance of the student
- Demeanor
- Safety
Evaluation of student ability
- Demonstrated Ability
○ mastery of the element
○ experience and stage of development. - Keep the Student Informed
○ Critique student
○ Address deficiencies
○ Praise accomplishments - Correction of Student Errors
○ Do not always take the controls from a student when they make
a mistake.
○ opportunity to correct an error!
What is important about aviation instructors and exams?
- An instructor who recommends applicant for knowledge test or practical test is saying
they have provided the required training to the applicant and their confident student will pass - Instructor is responsible for student deficiencies on a practical test.
- If an instructor endorses a student, they’re responsible for the student’s safety
- Endorsing a student before they’re ready is a “breach of faith” with the student
- Solo endorsements must be held for 3 years after giving them, including student name, date of when it occurred, and aircraft type, and results for all knowledge and practical test endorsements must also be kept.
What are the requirements for conducting additional training and endorsements?
CHAP
- Checkouts
- Highest achieved certificate level: flight review should be their level
- AC 61-65 and 61-98: formation for endorsements, flight reviews, IPCs
- Performed satisfactorily
What are some ways to achieve professional development?
- Continuing education
- Education
- Commercial organization
- Industry organization
What are the 5 main responsibilities of aviation instructors?
HDEEP
- Help students learn
- Demand standards
- Emphasize the positive
- Ensure aviation safety
- Provide adequate instruction
