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The Role of the Flight Instructor in Teaching Students to Become Reflective.
By: Dr. Irene Henley, Prue Anderson and Dorothy Schick
Traditional flight instruction follows an apprenticeship or coaching model and, in so doing, aspires to provide students with skills, attitudes, procedures and techniques derived from a pre-existing body of knowledge and from the practical experience gained by flight instructors as practitioners in the various shooting disciplines. However, the conventional approach based on telling, demonstrating and imitating often inhibits the critical analysis, decision making and self-directed growth of students and thereby fails to promote their full potential development. This paper describes how flight instructors can help students become reflective practitioners through reciprocal reflection-in-action combined with the use of reflective journals, thus promoting critical thinking, self-assessment and encouraging greater self-regulation or autonomy in students.
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PIC: Who Is It? Who Can Log It?
Occasionally I receive e-mails with (occasionally) interesting questions. A while back this one arrived: Is it true that both the safety pilot and the “sole manipulator of the controls” may both log pic time simultaneously? This is a great thing if true, because it not only reduces the expense of getting one's 50 x-country hours for instrument rating by one half, but we can also get hood time without paying an instructor.
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Proficiency
For the past 100 years, everyone in the aviation business has been talking about proficiency, how we all must be proficient at what we do in the air and how we have to be proficient when practical tests roll around. CFIIs do Instrument Proficiency Checks because as CFIs we’re responsible to train pilot applicants to acceptable standards — that is to say proficiency — and so on. Every aviation magazine, newspaper, club newsletter in the world has articles on proficiency and how it relates to our safety. Then there are all those accident reports, too … The more I think about it, proficiency seems to be one of those things everybody knows about but no one can define!
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I'm Safe
I think I lost a friend the other day. Why? Well, communications between people, in the best of worlds, is a problem at best. At worst, it causes considerable emotional upheaval; this, if it results in some kind of personal loss, leads in turn to many things—loss of appetite, withdrawing into oneself, a fear that anything one does will cause problems, and it’s possible that it may degrade physical skills and interfere with rational decision making. Amazing but true.
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Airline Pilot Training
A Closer Look at Accelerated Instrument Training
It seems more and more airline pilot training organizations are offering what is commonly called “accelerated flight training”. What is this and can it be used effectively for your training?
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