Here's one of the drafts I dug up for a lesson on flight controls. The formatting got a bit chopped up but you get the gist. Certain ground lessons will have more content- airspace and weather lessons were much longer/ more descriptive because there are so many moving parts and a lot of it is completely uncharted territory for new students. The flight maneuver lesson plans tend to have a lot less- for example in teaching steep turns I'd brush on the aerodynamic forces (overbanking tendency, adverse yaw, etc) and just as important as that is when it happens, what we do as pilots to maintain positive control.
Hope this helps.
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DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Airplane Flight Controls
OBJECTIVE: Develop Pilots knowledge of and ability to explain airplane flight controls
ELEMENTS:
1. Primary Flight Controls
• Elevator-pitch-lateral axis. Backpressure on yoke or stick
o “up elevator” increases downward force on the stabilizer and rotation around the CG
o Stabilators and T-Tails
o Cables and pulleys
• Aileron-bank-longitudinal axis. Rotation of yoke or left-right stick movement
o Discuss adverse yaw
o Discuss differential ailerons
o Cables, pulleys, bellcranks, push-pull rods
• Rudder-yaw-vertical axis. Rudder pedals
o Bungee connected to push-pull rods
V-tail
Spoilerons
Flaperons
2. Secondary Flight Controls
o Flaps: High lift devices. Increase both lift and induced drag
o Plain
o Split
o Slotted-increase coefficient of lift greatly. Ducts air over flap surface accelerates boundary layer and delays airflow separation
o Fowler-move rearwards and downwards
o We use a fowler-type slotted flap
o Leading edge devices:
o Fixed slot: directs airflow to the upper wing surface-delays stall
o Moveable slat: allows air to flow over the top of the wing delays separation dynamic or pilot controlled
o Leading edge flaps: Changes camber of wings
o Spoilers: Upper surface of wing- spoil smooth airflow, reducing lift and increasing drag
3. Trim Controls
o Trim tabs: can be installed on any primary flight control
o Tab moves opposite of desired control surface movement
o Balance tabs: small tab at trailing edge of control surface move opposite the direction of the control surface to aid the pilot like power steering
o Antiservo tabs: balance tabs that operate in the same direction of movement to decrease sensitivity
o Ground adjustable tabs: on rear of rudder
SCHEDULE:
EQUIPMENT:
ACTIONS: INSTRUCTOR ACTIONS STUDENT ACTIONS
PRE-FLIGHT
DISCUSSION Brief lesson & learning objectives
Ask/answer questions
Outline flight session
Teach lesson
Evaluate: Quiz Re-state learning objectives
Resolve questions
Listen/take notes
Resolve questions
Answer review/Evaluation Questions
Re-state Flight Session
IN-FLIGHT