CFI/CFII and MEI
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CFI/CFII and MEI
So I have my CFI initial checkride coming up next week and I was just wondering what were some of the special emphasis areas that everyone seemed to stumble across in the oral that was difficult to them? I am pretty good in the Regs department...I read it like a bible nightly... but I just want some outside opinions
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A lot of people concentrate on the FOI's. regs and overlook the technical details. Like for example how to explain how a constant speed prop works in laymen's terms. The other thing is over-explaining; be careful to only answer what is asked; otherwise you risk digging the proverbial hole for yourself.
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My initial was the CFII, but the inspector really only wanted to hear that I had some knowledge of how to teach a student; The FOI was mostly memorize and recite verbatim.
Not so much for the initial, but I think every examiner/inspector/DPE/etc wants to see that you have a couple different ways to reach a student -- Pictures, written explanations (out of your sources), and verbal.
If you can do that, and make good landings on the flight portion, you're golden.
If you can do that, and make good landings on the flight portion, you're golden.
#5
Yeah I'm pretty good at explaining things in different aspects... Like for every one specific thing I'm trying to explain I intend to use different teaching methods like say for lift. I'd give an example (hand out the window of a moving car, draw a wing with relative wind and show the different areas or use Bernoulis (spell check that) principle and the lift formula to explain it
#6
Not so much for the initial, but I think every examiner/inspector/DPE/etc wants to see that you have a couple different ways to reach a student -- Pictures, written explanations (out of your sources), and verbal.
If you can do that, and make good landings on the flight portion, you're golden.
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So I have my CFI initial checkride coming up next week and I was just wondering what were some of the special emphasis areas that everyone seemed to stumble across in the oral that was difficult to them? I am pretty good in the Regs department...I read it like a bible nightly... but I just want some outside opinions
Mine was FAA but the guy was excellent. Wanted practical knowledge, didn't expect word for word definitions of FOI, but how we'd integrate what we've read with how we could teach the material. They didn't expect a walking textbook, but someone who had a very good working understanding of each subject.
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