Best way to study / learn systems of your plane?

BoDEAN

BoDEAN

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What methods do you suggest for learning or teaching to a student, the systems of a plane they fly (ie. electrical, gear, engine, etc)?
 
Suggest to them they *actually* read the poh/afm & give them the necessary time to do it. Then quiz the crap outta them
 
I like the index cards, especially for V speeds. If you're talking systems, have the student draw it out on a dry erase board and explain it to you. It also depends on the student and how well they can visualize things.
 
This is what I do. 1) Learn the limitations. 2) Read the systems desciptions. 3) Learn the abnormal/emergency procedures.

And then...index cards, index cards, index cards!
 
Flash cards.

I still use them!

Break 'em out, make a stack of things you know "off the bat" and a stack of "didn't know off the bat".

Hit the "didn't know off the bat" stack hard.
 
I like to write/draw them over and over and over . Everything else seems to fall in place after I get the rote going. Never fails for me.

Not only did it work with systems and V speeds, but it also worked with instrument and FOI stuff.
 
Find acronyms to describe everything. Then dole them out on the checkride.

Examiner asks: What are the cloud clearance and vis requirements for class G airspace below 1200 AGL?

You Respond: "1 Coke"

Examiner: "Correct! Now what the heck does that mean.."

(1 mile, clear of clouds... COC ... = COKE)

Seriously, Acronyms do help for things. Consider the electrical bus array of the seminole. Use BATMAN

Battery..

... oh I forget, I haven't touched a seminole in 1 year..
 
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Find acronyms to describe everything. Then dole them out on the checkride.

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I dunno, to each his own. I'm not a big acronym-user. I prefer index/flash cards for learning myself. Powerpoint is great for teaching students, if you're good with it.

Some people spend so much time creating then memorizing crazy acronyms that it would have probably been easier to just memorize the info. as is in the first place.
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They have their place (ahem... ILS, VOR, etc), but some people go way overboard, IMO.

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Although it's similar to acronyms I guess, I also like to use numbers. For example, pulling the fire handle does 6 things. Or there are 5 points during the start sequence where things happen- what are they and what happens? Things like that...
 
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Some people spend so much time creating then memorizing crazy acronyms that it would have probably been easier to just memorize the info. as is in the first place.
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In high school I tried to memorize every country and capital on the European continent for a geography midterm using acryonyms.

I made a nice long phrase, with every letter corresponding to a country and it's capital. Come test day and I can't remember what country to start with...

Had I spent that time just memorizing the friggin countries I'd have been much better off.

-not a big fan of acronyms anymore.
 
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Mav made a kingairism!

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I thought I'd coin a new term; "kingairism". Means a statement is really pretty funny, but almost nobody knows that it is.
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Nice!

I was acutally being serious in this case. When i was a CFI I had a slide show, on the computer, of the airplane and few parts. Came in handy for multi training etc.
 
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Find acronyms to describe everything. Then dole them out on the checkride.

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Works for some, works VERY poorly for others. Wanna bust a checkride real quick? Bust out an acronym and not be able to tell what is in it. What good is GRABCARD or ATOMATOFLAMES if you don't know what it stands for. Worse, what if you get a DE that asks where to find that in the FARs?

It's all up to the individual. Me personally, I do well with acronyms, but I have some students that are just confused by them. So, we have to work together to find what's best for them. I've got one guy that's an engineer, so he can look at a diagram and more or less explain it verbatim after one look. Flash cards work very well for another student of mine. It's all up to the individual. Acronyms have a way of going very right and very wrong.
 
Man..... DFW and engineers wanting to fly. I've had about four of them so far.
 
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I like to write/draw them over and over and over . Everything else seems to fall in place after I get the rote going. Never fails for me.

Not only did it work with systems and V speeds, but it also worked with instrument and FOI stuff.

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I agree. Drawing out the systems was the best way for me to remember.
 
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Two words - Index Cards

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works for airline training........so it should work for the less-complex GA world too. I've used that method for both sides of the Aviation world.
 
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Man..... DFW and engineers wanting to fly. I've had about four of them so far.

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Its just not only Engineers in DFW wanting out of it and into flying!!!
 
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