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Old 04-08-2016, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by El Pilot View Post
The most obvious and effective path would be CFI. However I am not the greatest at communicating and presenting stuff, so I am very apprehensive about the ground teaching portion.
Some guys are just naturally gifted communicators and instructors but those that aren’t certainly don’t have to simply accept that. Practice will help. Knowing how to fly the aircraft you’re instructing in well is obviously very important, also. The more comfortable you are with the stick and rudder skills and every details of the operations, the easier it is to impart that to someone else.

Instructing effectively goes way beyond just sitting next to (or behind) a student and pointing out errors. Almost any pilot can do that. Really teaching someone starts with knowing how to clearly describe each maneuver and action in detail before you ever get to the aircraft. When you’re on an instructional flight, there are times when it will really help the student to correct an error on the spot with some inflight instruction. There are just as many other times where you need to leave the guy alone (obviously there are limits) to hopefully recognize the error on his own because when he does that it’s all him. He’ll be far less likely to repeat that error because he figured it out without your little bird voice in his ear prompting him.

Finally, when you’re back on the ground talking about the flight, ask questions – determine the guy’s thought process, why he made the choices he did and then you’ll know what type of techniques or instruction to offer.
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