Flight Instructor Rating Practicum

Overview

To develop advanced knowledge, skills and behaviour to analyse, plan, conduct and review aeronautical knowledge and training for professional flight crew licensing. To develop the ability to apply suitable instructional techniques to ground and flight training situations. To demonstrate a consistent high level of aircraft handling. To plan flight training, conduct the pre-flight briefing and conduct airborne training while managing threats and errors, and conduct post-flight briefing and review training.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

33.2 hours of dual flight instruction, 6 hours solo (12 hours of mutual flight) covering flight instructional techniques and principles and 3 hours of flight tests covering the initial FIR training endorsement and Night training endorsement. 12 Hours of classroom tuition on the Principles and Methods of Instruction (PMI), 81 hours of flight mass brief instruction and 5 hours of pre license briefing. Additionally there is 32 hours of pre-flight and post-flight briefing associated with the dual flight instruction sequences.