
Train Like You Fly
by Arlynn McMahon
Scenario-based training—tips and hints for making pilot training REAL!
Scenario-Based Training (SBT), which has become industry standard, uses a script of real-world experiences to address flight training objectives. Scenarios are powerful training tools precisely because the future is unpredictable. Unlike maneuver-based training where individual maneuvers are relatively isolated and learned virtually out of context, SBT is about the big picture and the integration of all the elements necessary for successful flight. Train Like You Fly explores scenario-based training extensively. In this book, National 2009 CFI of the Year, Arlynn McMahon provides the key ingredients for making a good pilot and shares practical techniques to bring it all into the cockpit.
By following structured scripts, SBT teaches students to consider all aspects of every flight, from beginning to end. Train Like You Fly is packed with scenarios, guidelines and tips that will help flight instructors reach well beyond the FAA Practical Test Standards to help students to train like they fly so they fly like they train. Instructors will learn how to:
- * Create effective scenarios of their own
- * Teach systematic risk reduction, aeronautical decision making (ADM) and develop critical thinking skills in their students
- * Employ effective grading and evaluation using the latest FAA/Industry (FITS) practices
- * Help new CFIs gain from the most effective habits of experienced instructors
This comprehensive guidebook shows flight instructors how to implement scenario-based training into their teaching methods, providing superior instructional tools to general aviation pilots who, in light of today’s technologies, fly farther, faster, and higher than ever before. Includes illustrations throughout, glossary, and extensive bibliography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments and Note from the Author
- Chapter One: Concepts
- A Lesson
- What is a Scenario?
- Features of Scenarios
- Objectives in Scenarios
- Limitations of Scenarios
- A Scenario Library
- Conclusions
- Exercises
- Chapter Two: Making a Good Point
- What is a Good Pilot?
- Beginning Situational Awareness
- Radio Communications and Beginning Precise Aircraft Control
- Beginning Command
- Using Cockpit Technology
- Go/No-Go Weather
- From This Point Foreword
- Beginnings in ADM: The Preflight Risk Checklist
- ADM Decision Boxes
- Preparing for Solo
- Beginnings in Pilot Judgment: Judgment Scenario Database
- Ready to Solo?
- Shorts and Softs
- Night
- Cross Country
- The Diversion
- Preparing for Graduation
- After the Checkride: Personal Minimums
- Thoughts about Regulations
- Homework and Note-taking
- Conclusions
- Exercises
- Chapter Three: Syllabus Redesign
- Incorporating Scenarios
- Understanding FAA/Industry Training Standards (FITS)
- FITS versus Traditional Training: A Comparison
- Writing a FITS Syllabus
- Sample FITS Lesson Plan
- Sample Commercially-Available Syllabus (plus FITS)
- Which is Preferred?
- Conclusions
- Exercises
- Chapter Four: Debriefing and Evaluating
- Better Debriefings
- Scenario Completion Standards
- What to Grade
- Learner-Centered Grading
- Summary
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Chapter Five: Instrument Scenario Training
- Aviation Training Devices
- Instrument Maneuvers for Beginning Skills
- Scenarios for Incorporating Technology
- Fully Scripted Scenarios
- Scripted Scenarios
- Organizing a Library of Scripts
- The Real Thing
- Instrument Regulation Scenario
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Sample Scripted Scenarios
- Chapter Six: Scenarios for Advanced Training
- Advanced Maintenance
- Flight Review Scenarios
- Instrument Proficiency Check
- Aircraft Checkouts
- Industry Update
- Conclusions
- Exercises
- Chapter Seven: Scenarios for Flight Instructor Training
- CFI Candidates
- Talking
- Lesson Plan Template
- Teaching and Supervising
- Scenarios in Teaching
- Scenarios in Supervising
- Preventing Instructional Surprises
- Pilot Logbook Exercise
- Learning Plateau Exercise
- Flight Instructor Scenario Judgment Database
- Instructor Flight Training
- The Spin Scenario
- Effective Instruction
- Preparing for First Solo
- From Instructor-in-Training to Professional
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Chapter Eight: Weather in Scenarios
- Weather Knowledge Challenge
- Weather at Solo
- Weather at Solo Cross Country
- Mindset at Graduation and Beyond
- Integrating the Weather Scenario
- Top 10 Safe Weather Strategy Scenarios
- Pilot Weather Personal Minimums
- Conclusions
- Exercises
- Chapter Nine: The Right Attitude
- Hazardous Attitudes and Their Antidotes
- A Personal Assessment
- Recognition and Recovery
- One Lesson Plan to Teach Hazardous Attitudes
- Attitudes in Advanced Training
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Chapter Ten Wisdom Report Scenarios
- Learning from the Mistakes
- Share the Story
- Build the Story
- Dissect the Story
- Being General vs. Getting Specific Scenarios
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Chapter Eleven: Gold Standards for Employees
- Flight School Culture
- Front Desk Personnel Standardization Training Scenarios
- Check Instructor Standardization Training Scenarios
- Exercise
- Chapter Twelve: Designing Your Own Scenarios
- Scenario Ingredients
- Idea for Great Scenarios
- The Execution
- The Rules
- Scenario Storyboard: Daytona Beach to Washington, D.C.
- Conclusions and Exercises
- Chapter Thirteen: Why Bother Using Scenarios to Train Pilots
- Benefits to Instructors and Industry
- Pilot Error
- Risk Homeostasis Theory
- Ten Habits of Highly Experienced Instructors
- Conclusions and Exercise
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Radio-Call Pilot Aid
- Section Chart Excerpts for Chapter 2 Diversion Exercise Scenarios
- Learning Plateau Game Sheet
- Glossary
- IFR General NTSB Reports
- Bibliography and Internet References
- Footnotes by Chapter
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