{"id":2574,"date":"2017-04-24T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:35:15","slug":"april-23-2017-ground-school-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"April 23, 2017 Ground School Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?attachment_id=2578\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2578\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2578 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0001.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>FlightSafety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FlightSafety process for getting instructors online in equipment new to them is to train them as a client; have them observe the training of other clients (see the material a second time and watch for instructor technique); practice teach either on your own or with another instructor watching; and finally to conduct your own class with clients while an experienced instructor supervises.<\/p>\n<p>This process of attend, observe, practice, and supervised instruction must be\u00a0completed for\u00a0both the longer initial and recurrent course content, and you must be evaluated as proficient in each along the way.<\/p>\n<p>While all this learning and practice is going on, there are\u00a0additional man-days of mandatory e-learning that you must successfully complete. These courses were all very well done, and the work was far from insignificant.<\/p>\n<p>The Live Learning experiences are\u00a0web-casts being conducted by a live instructor over the internet. There is usually one instructor and maybe fi e other teammates at FlightSafety facilities across the globe. Teammates is the term we use for\u00a0employees here at FSI. \u00a0Got all this?<\/p>\n<p>Here is my list so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warm Weather Ops<\/li>\n<li>Weather Radar<\/li>\n<li>RVSM Operations<\/li>\n<li>SIM OPS &#8211; SIPO<\/li>\n<li>Runway Analysis<\/li>\n<li>TCAS\/ACAS<\/li>\n<li>MNPS and North Atlantic HLA<\/li>\n<li>Understanding RNAV (GPS) Localizer (LP) minima<\/li>\n<li>VNAV procedures using MDA as a DA<\/li>\n<li>Cold Weather Ops<\/li>\n<li>ALAR\/CFIT<\/li>\n<li>Transport Canada Familiarization<\/li>\n<li>Human Factors \/ CRM General Concepts<\/li>\n<li>ePodium Familiarization<\/li>\n<li>61.58 Consecutive checks<\/li>\n<li>ATC Climb Via and Descend \u00a0Via<\/li>\n<li>iPad Air Setup (duh!)<\/li>\n<li>Safety Management System (SMS) in Action<\/li>\n<li>LiveLearning made easy (duh!)<\/li>\n<li>TSA Security Awareness training<\/li>\n<li>FAA Employee Drug and Alcohol Awareness<\/li>\n<li>Information Security Awareness<\/li>\n<li>Unlawful Harassment Prevention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Live Learning<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PRM Ops &#8211; Parallel Runway<\/li>\n<li>High Altitude Training<\/li>\n<li>Trade Compliance for Instructors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional Instructor Course (March &#8217;17)<\/strong>:\u00a0This class was conducted in Dallas, and I headed down knowing I&#8217;d be bored out of my mind for a solid week. As it turned out, I had the chance to work with 10 or so other people that had vastly different experiences than my own (mostly deeper). The course was definitely worth the experience, and I came away better prepared to do this job.<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0element of the PIC course is to demonstrate how facilitation and client participation yields better results than direct lecturing techniques. I wholeheartedly agree, but implementing that technique successfully in the field is not natural.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-requisite coursework included\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Management by Strengths<\/span> (Similar to Birkman personality studies), and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Principles of Service Excellence<\/span> course relating to FSI values.<\/p>\n<p>All this learning and preparation consumed the first quarter of 2017 handily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ground Instructor <\/strong>certification for both initial and recurrent was achieved earlier this month.\u00a0Within a\u00a0week of being signed off, I was schedule to run a\u00a0recurrent ground school in the WestWind 1124 on my own, which wrapped up this afternoon.\u00a0It will be interesting to see their comments on the class, as I continue to develop my style.<\/p>\n<p>There was a check-ride type anxiety going into this, and a tendency to over-prepare. Developing summaries I&#8217;d never use had been the order of the day leading up to this experience. Program managers are giving me all the time and freedom I need to develop my teaching style, so there really is no pressure at the moment. The goal is to educate, entertain, and maintain an enthusiasm for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Self-evaluating my initial foray, I&#8217;d say that I talk too much and rely on a lecture style of teaching over facilitation. Lecturing is more familiar and allows me to get more detail into a recurrent session, but I know I need to move toward facilitating. I have seen some folks in my utility days who really knew how to do this. Using scenarios and ensuring the clients stay engaged is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>My next post will address an update on my airplane.\u00a0Looks like the engineering repairs to the gear boxes is finally getting underway.<\/p>\n<p>Fly safe &#8211; and thanks for all the positive feedback I am getting on this blog. It helps make it all worth doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlightSafety The FlightSafety process for getting instructors online in equipment new to them is to train them as a client; have them observe the training of other clients (see the material a second time and watch for instructor technique); practice teach either on your own or with another instructor watching; and finally to conduct your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}