CFI SYLLABUS
- Use of simulator
- Get A plan for every day
- Schedule for the check ride
- Define your teaching style
- Getting Students to talk
- Asking students questions
- Evaluating each other
- Analogies are very important think of as many of them as you can for everything you do in flying
Day 1
Ground
- FOI
- Learning process
- Teaching Methods
- Evaluation
- Human factors
- Planning instructional activities
- Working on simulator
Lesson plans and Air
- Taxiing
- Take offs and landings
- Traffic Patterns
- Straight and Level flight
Day 2
Ground
- Aero medical Factors
- Visual scanning and Collision avoidance use of distraction during flight
- Principals of flight
Lesson Plans and Air
- Climbing turns, Descents and turns
- Slow flight and stalls, Crossed controlled stalls, Secondary stalls.
Day 3
Ground
- Elevator and ruder and ailerons
- Trim Devices
- Flaps
- Weight and Balance
Lesson plans and Air
- Basic instrument maneuvers (Work on Simulator)
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- Straight and level
- Constant airspeed and rate climbs
- Constant airspeed and rate descents
- Turns to headings
- Recovery from unusual attitudes
- Steep Turns
Day 4
Ground
- Navigation and Flight planning including sectionals
- Night Operations.
Lesson Plans and Air
- Chandelles
- Lazy 8s
- Steep spirals
Day 5
Ground
- FARs
- MELs
Lesson plans and Air
- GRM (Ground Reference Maneuvers)
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- TAP
- Rectangular patterns
- S turns
- Eights on Pylons
- Emergency Maneuvers
Day 6
Ground
- National Airspace system
Lesson Plans and Air
- Forward slip to a landing
- Go Arounds
- Short field and soft field approach and Landings
- Soft field approach and Landing
- Power off 180s.
Day 7
Ground
- Review
- Possibly have you teach lessons to one of my students
- Endorsement
Air
- Mock check ride
Day 8
Mock check ride
Day 9
Mock check ride
Be prepared to talk on each and every part of the ground lessons (know it all). Have lesson plans for each and every maneuver and be prepared to give one or more lesson plans for every day. The categories I have put above are general and not specific in some instances so make sure you cover every part of that particular maneuver or ground lesson. Consider talking about the things that are going to make your student successful for the lesson plans. Example: For straight and level, what is really going to make that student successful? Looking at the horizon in relation to the cowling? The wings in relation to the horizon and picking a number of points on the horizon and flying to them!. We will be doing some maneuvers during every flight that will not be part of that day's syllabus, you will be exposed to them and start teaching them every time we do them, especially take offs and landings. I expect you to show up prepared in all areas above. If you have any questions call me or E-mail prior to starting. Be prepared to work hard it should be a lot of fun and we should all learn a lot. Remember the majority of work for this rating will be done before you ever start.