How People Learn To Fly

[Colonel]

What that dog does, is arguably more difficult than a Millennial landing a 172.

The interesting thing, is that the dog didn't have a tightly-supervised TC-approved
FTU to teach him how to perform that very difficult task.  You could argue that the
dog is much smarter than a Millennial, but that misses the point.

He taught himself.  He watched.  He learned.

That video teaches you more about flight instruction than 80 hours of TC-approved
groundschool, and this post makes it pretty clear why TC want to revoke my citizenship.

[size=18pt]As a flight instructor, you must always fly the aircraft perfectly. [/size]

You must show the student [u][i]what[/i] to do[/u], even if you have no idea how to tell him, [u][i]how[/i] to do it[/u].

Despite having no natural ability to teach whatsoever, I was somehow an effective
flight instructor, and this was because of two things:

1) I could jump into any airplane and fly the snot out of it, and

2) I could break tasks down and explain, from a physics / engineering
standpoint, [u]what[/u] I was doing, and [u]why[/u] I was doing it.

Burn the witch, burn the witch, says Arlo.  Ok, Boomer.


This following video is the most effective tool I had as a class one instructor,
to teach ground instruction to new class 4 instructors.  It's 45 seconds
long, and it will teach you 40 hours worth of TC-approved flight instructor
ground school material:



After watching that video, I have only one question for the class 4 candidate:

If you were to recommend to him ONE THING to improve his instructional technique - what would it be?

If you can correctly answer that question, you are ready to flight instruct.

https://www.bu.edu/ctl/teaching-resourc ... -to-teach/