BAI maneuvers for PPL-students

[sorrygottarunway]

I picked up a student fresh from his long cross country that wanted to switch to me as his instructor. He came in today telling me that he had no time under the hood, so I thought it was a good opportunity to start that.

Did any of you guys use the PCATD or sim to do the work, just to get a basic stress-free scan down? I felt it was a little bit of trouble in the plane today, since my student under the hood is quite prone to air-sickness. I thought that a sim session would let him see how to control the airplane without the stress of the noise, other aircraft, turbulence, etc...

-B

 

[E_Dawg]

Nope, the fars say 3 hrs flight time soley by reference to instruments. So he's gotta be in the air.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

Ed is right that it won't count for the 3 required hours, but if your student is having some airsickness issues, I think your idea is great. Since it does involve adding time that doesn't "count", include that in the explanation to your student about why you think it would be a good idea.

Another idea? It may not work depending on prior training, but if your student was taught "pitch power performance" configurations for VFR rather than "let's try this and see what happens" it translates very nicely into flight solely by reference to instruments - the only difference is replacing the view out the window with the AI.