Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:08 pm
#1878082
I believe you are correct Lefty, which perhaps makes some interesting points about the fundamental difference between CRI and FI not being what we do in training, but what we do later.
This task of reading a student, identifying and working out their needs, strengths and weaknesses, and creating a specific syllabus - as well as dealing with multiple issues of flying standards feature in most of what we do, and what is quite rightly picked up in our renewal tests.
It is theoretically part of an FI's skillset, but in reality they spend most of their time teaching ab-initio, so inevitably most do not concentrate upon that skillset. Certainly anybody who thinks it's just a case of picking which standard PPL exercise to teach, absolutely doesn't get it.
And that does make an important point I think - the reality of where any of us are as instructors, is where we've come through the totality of our experience, mentoring, renewals, and so-on. Any instructor: FI, CRI, whatever of reasonable experience, probably has tens, or hundreds times more experience instructing than they do of being trained as an instructor. So that's what really defines us, not the initial instruction we received.
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