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Old 08-02-2010, 03:20 PM
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I looking at purchasing a syllabus so I can start to instruct students of my own. I was looking at Gleim and Jeppessen syllabus's.
Does anybody have any input on these, or a syllabus that they would recommend?
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Old 08-02-2010, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by foothillspilot View Post
I looking at purchasing a syllabus so I can start to instruct students of my own. I was looking at Gleim and Jeppessen syllabus's.
Does anybody have any input on these, or a syllabus that they would recommend?
Most students will purchase some training material before they start flight training which comes with a syllabus. I like Jeppesen but since I work at a Cessna Pilot Center and students buy the King's schools kit, I have been using mostly the King's syllabus. You can always make your own...
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:39 AM
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Call me weird, but I just used my FAR/AIM and made sure all the topics are discussed. Combine that with the one I made during my CFI training, it worked to get me started out. I'm not the organized type, so I like to keep things flexible, but obviously I get all tasks accomplished by using the PTS as our final check-list(and reference during training on top of the FAR/AIM)
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Ewfflyer View Post
Call me weird, but I just used my FAR/AIM and made sure all the topics are discussed. Combine that with the one I made during my CFI training, it worked to get me started out. I'm not the organized type, so I like to keep things flexible, but obviously I get all tasks accomplished by using the PTS as our final check-list(and reference during training on top of the FAR/AIM)
The advantage of a syllabus is that it is usually organized in a logical sequence-of-training manner, and comes with a textbook book which matches the syllabus.
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:45 AM
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Three words of advice:

Make your own.

Dead serious. Wrote all of my own syllabuses (syllabi?) and even got them approved for 141 programs. It was definitely worth it. You can get them printed, bound, etc. and charge the student cost for them (at most $5-6) if you want to.

Grab a soda, a nice big table, a big legal pad, a FAR/AIM and get to work. Eventually you'll want to type it up on MS Word or something like that, but it's at little easier to proof and make sure everything is covered if you just write it down first.

Think of it another way. You buy a Jeppesen or Gleim product and you'll have to spend a bunch of time learning it anyway (or you could just stumble through with a lot of "huh...they want us to do that huh?" - very inspiring), or you could write your own and know it inside-out.

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Although I am not a CFI, I agree with making your own with reference to the AIM. This is exactly what my instructor did. He also maintained a folder (of which I thought was old school, but it really helped).
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