Best book for flight instructors
I've never met Rod Machado, sadly. I have used his material a lot - mainly the online courses when I was doing FAA certificates a few years ago, but also his IFR survival manual and I bought his imagery package to include in my own briefing material.
Please give him my complements and let him know that if he ever wants to bring out UK / EASA teaching and learning material, I'll be first in the queue to use it.
G
Please give him my complements and let him know that if he ever wants to bring out UK / EASA teaching and learning material, I'll be first in the queue to use it.
G
He uses a lot of humor that he inserts to relax people as they study his books. This psychological approach to learning is one I have always tried to instill into the CFI's I have trained.
Naturally there are those who will want to dig deeper into all this theory but reading what Rod has provided actually doesn't require deeper understanding. It's all there......just in an easy to read and understand presentation.
Like I have always said, the area under the curve is just the area under the curve .........and how you go about understanding it doesn't matter a hoot whether it comes to you from Einstein or from a talking 6 foot Panda Bear with a knack for Calculus .
Dudley Henriques
If any student asks me a question about pilot theory I direct them to the FAA Handbooks online.
These days I just teach tailwheel, spinning and aerobatics, including teach other instructors to teach that stuff. The only book that covers CASA's Manual of Standards for that underpinning knowledge is my own. Dudley would say that it has too many Australianisms.
Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators seems to be the source of Australian pilot theory books - notably by Bob Tait or the late Dave Robson (Aviation Theory Centre). CASA here specifies the scope of the theory and many seem to misunderstand the differences between two-dimensional airfoil theory and the aerodynamics of a three-dimensional airplane - they grab snippets from that book but don't bother reading other chapters to get a more complete picture.
If any student asks me a question about pilot theory I direct them to the FAA Handbooks online.
These days I just teach tailwheel, spinning and aerobatics, including teach other instructors to teach that stuff. The only book that covers CASA's Manual of Standards for that underpinning knowledge is my own. Dudley would say that it has too many Australianisms.
If any student asks me a question about pilot theory I direct them to the FAA Handbooks online.
These days I just teach tailwheel, spinning and aerobatics, including teach other instructors to teach that stuff. The only book that covers CASA's Manual of Standards for that underpinning knowledge is my own. Dudley would say that it has too many Australianisms.
Dudley Henriques
You know...........in the end analysis you can read all the books and it won't make you a good flight instructor.
If you got the rating to build up time that will be how you approach the job. This doesn't mean you can't be a good CFI following this path because you can.
Some people are just natural teachers. They take to instructing like a duck takes to water. They do a credible job almost without trying.
But for many the road to becoming a good instructor means hard work and above all an unending desire to be a good instructor.
Teaching people to fly airplanes is not a natural skill inherent to most of us. To be good one has first of all to WANT to be good, and that takes effort.
I've written much in some detail on how to go about doing this so I won't elaborate deeply here but I will say that the keys to becoming a good instructor are enjoying teaching, treating each student as an individual, and most of all learning through teaching. Good instructors are constantly engaged in self evaluation where each dual session given is a dual session taken. YES.......good instructors learn as much from their students as their students learn from them............even more.
Dudley Henriques
If you got the rating to build up time that will be how you approach the job. This doesn't mean you can't be a good CFI following this path because you can.
Some people are just natural teachers. They take to instructing like a duck takes to water. They do a credible job almost without trying.
But for many the road to becoming a good instructor means hard work and above all an unending desire to be a good instructor.
Teaching people to fly airplanes is not a natural skill inherent to most of us. To be good one has first of all to WANT to be good, and that takes effort.
I've written much in some detail on how to go about doing this so I won't elaborate deeply here but I will say that the keys to becoming a good instructor are enjoying teaching, treating each student as an individual, and most of all learning through teaching. Good instructors are constantly engaged in self evaluation where each dual session given is a dual session taken. YES.......good instructors learn as much from their students as their students learn from them............even more.
Dudley Henriques
