Hey everyone, I had an interview 2 weeks ago for a CFI position at a large 141 school in Arizona. It was my first CFI interview but Unfortuntately I didn't get the job (a whole different story), even though I felt I did good during the interview and sim session. Anyway, one of the questions that came up during the interview was, "How do you teach a student to judge they're distance when doing a rectangular pattern?" My response was by using a tree line that may be parallel to the field that we're using, and refrencing from that. Im from the midwest, and did all my training in the midwest so thats how I learned, fortnately, or unfortunately (i'm not too sure). Of course there's no tree's in the desert, so I'm not sure if this one thing was the nail in the coffin or what. It always worked well for me. But I was wanting to know what are some of other ways of teaching students how to judge their distance away from the field during these manuevers? I kinda feel dumb for not knowing any other methods, but as they say, as an instructor your not going to know everything.