Please help with lecture for test

[blueb0y79]

Calling all FI's,

I've got my test coming up for the FI rating this week. As a mock test ive been told to prepare a lecture to give to my insructor. Has anyone got any advise on where i can prepare for this please ? It can be on any topic.

Thanks everyone.

BB

[mad_jock]

Just pick any subject you like and look at Thevor Thom. And cobbel something together.

If you can't think of of a subject I will give you one.

Lecture title: Max rate level turns.

[hugh flung_dung]

Some long briefs that you can get your teeth into are:
- VFR diversion planning,
- stalling
- constant speed propellors
... loads of info on the web and in the usual books.

HFD

[Whopity]

"I've got my test coming up for the FI rating this week"

What on earth have you been doing on your FI Course if you have to ask such a question here?

You have the entire PPL syllabus to choose from. If you have been given carte blanche pick you favourite topic and use a little imagination.

Or is this a wind up? Talking of which how about prop theory, can you draw and describe all the forces acting on a propellor? Well you should be able to!

[18greens]

High lift devices, the marks on an ASI, how to fill out a flight plan, why not to exceed VNE, horn balances, the combustion cycle, pressure instruments. Oooh the exciting list goes on and on.

[Genghis the Engineer]

A favourite of mine if I want to blind people with science is how to calculate the flight envelope (g-limits, Vne, Va, Vb, Vfe, Vh, etc. etc.) It's particularly good for demonstrating how good you are with different coloured chalk/marker!

G

[Freebird17]

Thunderstorms - another one which will allow you to display your prowess with marker pens

[P.Pilcher]

Well, my favourite would be "Tracking to and from an NDB using an RBI".

I never did this on any of my courses but had to teach it, so I worked out how to do so in the bath one night. At my next FI renewal, Frank Morgan (R.I.P.) asked me how I did just that. I got out the coloured chalks and spent much time explaining same on the board. "Capital", he announced " I had to work out how to do this in 1948 and invented the same system you use today"!

P.P.

[gemini76]

PP, just out of interest, just how did you teach tracking to and from using an RBI ?

Always willing to listen and learn.........

[Speed Twelve]

Mad Jock

Didn't know max rate turns were in the civvy FI syllabus...

Have they chucked in formation, LL pilot nav and aeros as well now? ;)

ST

[mad_jock]

Gawds knows m8 its what I did my lecture on :D which I might add was choosen by dropping a book and doing the subject the page fell open on. The examiner got the instructor to choose the subject a couple of days before the flight test using this method.

I think the object of the exercise is not par say to lecture on the the PPL subject. Its to show that you can construct a lecture and give it. The subject matter dosn't really matter.

Personally I didn't mind the subject I just downloaded the lecture plan from the 2nd year Mech Eng Aero course and printed the hand out. Chopped most of the maths out and went into lecturing mode.

MJ

[Speed Twelve]

MJ

OK, chap. Only learned the technique for max rate turns when doing my mil instructor conversion. Something I was aware of, but had never seen the technique published in a civilian text.

Did you then go and fly it as an exercise? Apparently it's 'fun' in a Tucano or Hawk, as you're sitting at 6g or so sustained max rate trying to patter to the stude!

ST

[Send Clowns]

I love that one Genghis! The look of wonder on a bright student's face as the envelope appears out of aerodynamics they already understand and simple logic must mirror my own when I was first taught this.

[mad_jock]

Nope didn't fly it.

And you might be right the book could have been mil.

MJ

[P.Pilcher]

Gemini76 - sorry not been watching this board as much as I should. I am certainly not typing out my brief here - it will take ages! P.M. me your e-mail and I will then take it further.

P.P.