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MentorLIVE #13: Turning Fledglings into Fliers - Three Challenges for Flight Instructors

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Discussion of CFI challenges: Managing Risk; Transferring Knowledge; Determining Readiness to solo / take the practical test.

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Chapters 18
  1. 0:00 Welcome and how MentorLIVE works
  2. 6:03 Susan Parson and Paul Preidecker: first solo challenges
  3. 9:01 Never letting your guard down
  4. 12:00 Managing risk with experienced students
  5. 15:01 Q&A: endorsements
  6. 18:02 Attitudes and external pressures
  7. 21:00 Not signing off and the language to use
  8. 24:01 More tips for instructors
  9. 27:02 VFR and IFR experience
  10. 30:00 Personal minimums that keep adjusting
  11. 33:03 Mentoring at the home airport
  12. 36:00 Review, reflect and redirect
  13. 39:02 Thinking like a dispatcher
  14. 42:00 The perception disconnect
  15. 45:00 Steps toward solo and beyond
  16. 51:01 Maneuvers-based and scenario-based training
  17. 54:01 Simulating at altitude
  18. 57:02 Evaluating the trainee and closing

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About This Course

Topic: Discussion of CFI challenges: Managing Risk; Transferring Knowledge; Determining Readiness to solo / take the practical test.

In many ways, flight instruction is akin to compressed parenting: the instructor starts with complete responsibility for the very survival of another human being. The task is to transfer the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for the helpless human to understand, think independently, and make sound choices to navigate the complexities the real world serves up every day. The nature of that task makes flight instruction a risky business. There are many ways to get hurt if you are not paying attention to the right thing at the right time, and the long-term stakes are high since the things you teach will affect how the trainee flies in the future. In this context, Paul Preidecker and Susan Parson discuss three specific challenges that flight instructors face and offer tips and techniques for meeting them successfully.

Presenters

Susan Parson

Presenter

SUSAN PARSON Before joining the FAA in May 2004, Susan Parson was a diplomat in the State Department's foreign service with overseas assignments in Panama and Bangladesh. She decided to pursue a lifelong passion for aviation by starting flight training in 1991, eventually earning ATP and instructor certificates and working part-time at a Leesburg Virginia flight school. At the FAA, Susan serves as editor-in-chief for the FAA Safety Briefing magazine, FAA team lead for the Airman Certification Standards project, and special assistant to the Flight Standards Service executive director. She has authored nearly 100 General Aviation Safety articles and several online training documents and courses.

An active general aviation pilot, Susan instructs for her Leesburg-based flying club and the Civil Air Patrol, in which she is a member of the National Standards / Evaluation team.

Paul Preidecker

Presenter

PAUL PREIDECKER Paul is the chief flight instructor and examiner for a regional airline. He has over 7500 hours of flying experience and holds an ATP certificate with type ratings in the CL-65 and Do-328. He is also active in general aviation. He has been an instructor for 27 years, is a member of NAFI Professional Development Committee, and volunteers for EAA during AirVenture as an on-the-air host for EAA Radio.

Formerly, Paul was an instructor on twenty-three, six-day, 4500-mile IFR cross-country training flights that originated from an airport near Madison, Wisconsin with a route that went to Seattle, Los Angeles, and back to Wisconsin while training approaches at 40 airports along the way. As an experienced aviator and teacher, Paul aims to contribute more to aviation safety by using his training insights to blend accepted best practices between GA and Part 121.

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