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FI-AME-Slow Flight-Stalls-Steep Turns-Emergency
In Brief
What It Addresses
Slow Flight, Stalls, Steep Turns and Emergency Procedures ___________________________________________________________ Scenario:
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Flight Instructor Airplane Multiengine
Slow Flight, Stalls, Steep Turns and Emergency Procedures ___________________________________________________________ Scenario:
You have a student who is having problems performing slow flight and recognizing stalls. You are going give a lesson to try to find the problem areas. In addition, you are going to review some of the emergency procedures that your student is going to have to demonstrate on the practical test. Lesson Objectives:
The student instructor will demonstrate the ability to perform, teach and analyze slow flight, various stall maneuvers, steep turns, emergency descents and various systems and equipment malfunctions.
Pre-Briefing:
The student instructor will review the desired outcomes, discuss the scenario for the flight, and discuss the key elements of each maneuver to be flown. The student instructor will develop a lesson plan that describes and utilizes the scenario prescribed for this lesson. During the preflight briefing, the instructor will play the role of the student being trained and respond accordingly. The student instructor should be able to explain the risks associated with demonstrating and practicing stalls and slow flight in a multiengine airplane, including minimum safe altitudes, and while in the traffic pattern doing takeoffs and landings and describe how to mitigate those risks.
The student instructor should teach emergency equipment and survival gear to the instructor in the role of the student being trained .
Completion Standards:
This lesson will be complete when the student instructor can perform, teach and analyze each maneuver to the level shown on the desired outcome table and within the tolerances specified by the Flight Instructor Practical Test Standard for Airplane, Multiengine.
Task Grades SRM
Grades
FI-AME- Slow Flight, Stalls, Steep Turns, and Emergency Procedures
Desired Outcome Grade Sheet Scenario Activities Task Desired Performance
Not Observed
Describe
Explain
Practice
Perform
Explain
Practice
Manage/Decide Maneuver LessonPreflight Lesson on a Maneuver to be
Performed in Flight.
SRM
Preflight Inspection
Engine Starting
Taxiing
Before Takeoff Check
Preflight Procedures
SRM
Radio Communications and ATC Light Signals Traffic Patterns Airport, Runway, and Taxiway Signs, Markings, and Lighting
Airport Operations
SRM Normal and Crosswind Takeoff and Climb Airport Departure ProceduresTakeoffs and Departure SRM
Performance
Maneuvers Steep Turns
Maneuvering During Slow Flight
Power-On Stalls
Power-Off Stalls Accelerated Maneuver Stalls (Demonstration) Slow Flight and Stalls
SRM Systems and Equipment Malfunction Emergency Equipment and Survival Gear Emergency Descent
Emergency Procedures
SRM Normal and Crosswind Approach and Landing Arrival and Landings SRM
Postflight Procedures
Post Flight Procedures SRM
De-Briefing:
The debriefing will be lead by the student instructor using the Learner-Centered Grading method. The student instructor will critique the instructor about the instructor’s “simulated student” performance. Then the student instructor will critique his/her own performance using the Desired Outcomes Grading sheet as a guide. The instructor and student instructor will discuss any discrepancies in their respective evaluations.
Notes to the Instructor:
The student instructor is learning how to prepare and to present effective scenario-based instruction. The student instructor may not have received scenario-based instruction and may need to review the information provided on the FAA/FITS website to gain a full understanding of the instructional process and its value.
The student instructor should develop a lesson plan that incorporates this scenario and conduct the flight in accordance with that plan. You should review this lesson plan during the preflight briefing and make any suggestions for improvement at that time.
In the Desired Outcomes Grade Sheet, the Accelerated Maneuvers Stall (Demonstration) is listed this way in the Flight Instructor Practical Test Standards-Airplane Multiengine. The student instructor is expected to demonstrate, teach, and/or analyze this maneuver as required by the individual task requirement.
The risks associated with practicing these maneuvers in a multiengine airplane should be discussed and appropriate measures taken to mitigate those risks, including the establishment of minimum altitudes for each maneuver. You should assume the role of the student who is having trouble performing slow flight and stall maneuvers. When the student instructor asks you to perform a particular maneuver, do so with an error or mistake that might show a misunderstanding of how the maneuver is to be performed. If the student instructor provides correct instruction to remedy the problem, demonstrate the maneuver correctly.
At various points during the scenario, you should ask the student instructor to demonstrate to you the proper way to perform the maneuver. At some point, the student instructor should initiate an emergency and evaluate your performance executing the proper procedures When you get to the demonstration stall as defined in the PTS, the student instructor should be able to demonstrate each of them in accordance with the standards in the PTS.
Source: Federal Aviation Administration — www.faasafety.gov. Reproduced from the published record; FlightPush adds formatting only.
Author: AFS-810
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