Flight%20Instructor%20Professionalism

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Flight Instructor Professionalism

• Presented by
• Salt Lake City
• Flight Standards District Office
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• Inspector Bryan Neville

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Flight Instructor Professionalism

• From the Ground Up

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Professionalism

• What are some Characteristics of Professionalism?

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Exists only when a service is performed
• for someone, or
• for the common good

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Is achieved only after extended training and
  preparation
• Typically accomplished with Formal Education
• Requires significant self-study
• Requires significant practice
• Such as a Doctors internship

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• True performance as a professional is based on
  study and research
• Examples Masters or Doctoral thesis
• Searching for the WHY

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Presupposes an intellectual requirement
• Able to reason
• logically
• accurately

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Ability to make good judgemental decisions
• Actions are not limited to standard patterns and
  practices

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Demands a Code of Ethics
• True to themselves
• True to those whom they serve

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Sincerity of Effort
• Inadequacies are admitted, not hidden
• AND corrected for the future

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• A Flight Instructor is required to have strong
  skills and abilities
• A competent and qualified teacher
• An expert pilot

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• A flight instructor is required to have high
  standards of
• Personal appearance
• Neat, clean, and appropriate
• Personal habits
• Common courtesy
• Not rude, thoughtless, or inattentive
• Proper language not profane or obscene
• Cleanliness
• Body and Breath

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Self-improvement
• Alert for ways to improve
• qualifications
• effectiveness
• services
• Alert to changes
• AIM, A/FD, Charts, Handbooks, Manuals, PTS
• Periodicals, Internet, Meetings, Seminars, etc.

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• You must be a practical psychologist
• Understand anxiety
• Reactions to stress
• Normal
• Abnormal
• Obstacles to Learning
• Impatience, Worry, Lack of Interest, Apathy
• Anxiety, Discomfort, Illness, Fatigue
• Other Interests, Enthusiasms, Troubles

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Have a Plan
• Use a Syllabus
• Set goals
• Personally prepare for each lesson

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Remember the Four Levels of Learning
• Rote
• Understanding
• Application
• Correlation
• This is the only level acceptable on a checkride

• Correlation
• This is the only level acceptable on a checkride

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Flight Instructor Professionalism

• Laws of Learning
• Why does a student learn
• Readiness
• Effect
• Why does a student remember
• Primacy
• Exercise
• Intensity
• Recency

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Characteristics of Professionalism

• Summary
• Be the Best You Can Be!