CFI-A Lesson 4

Today's lesson was entirely ground lessons - no flight time involved. My ground briefs included: Principles of Flight, Flight Controls, Visual Scanning, and Navigation Aids. I spent most of yesterday and an hour this morning building my lesson plans, adding supporting images, and thinking up good questions to get a feel for how well the student understands each topic.

When I arrived at the airport, I gave the Flight Controls brief to my "student", then we discussed the other three with two goals: 1) Focus on the areas that directly effect the student and 2) hit the highlights of other indirect areas to ensure the student has a basic familiarity with the subject. As an example, I briefly talked about the various types of flaps and slats that are available, but then focused on slotted flaps, since that is what the student will see on the Piper Cadet training airplane.

Now it's time to begin work on Lesson 5.