RA Flight Instructor

20190803 Principles and Methods of Instruction (PMI)

Flightscope Aviation, Rod Flockhart

• make patter notes (see phone images for examples)
• CAO 95.55 for aircraft limitations
• Laws of learning (7, see raaus FI manual page 4)
  • Readiness
  • Primacy
  • Relationship
  • Exercise
  • Intensity
  • Effect
  • Recency
• S&L
  • stability
    • e.g. pitch up 20 degrees, release stick, watch porpoising magnitude to slowly decrease back to stable
  • spiral stability
    • e.g. in an established spiral dive, releasing controls will not recover and stabilise the dive
• to practice:
  • off-airport forced landing
    • adopt Vg without using ASI
  • landing, holding off nose
  • stall recovery
    • maintain level flight