Low Speed, High AoA

Desertdog,

Just a quick word of advise for your oral. Keep it simple. They will ask you enough technical questions to determine your level of knowledge. As for your teaching they will not be impressed with how much you know, but your ability to make it understandable to laymen, while keeping it accurate and thorough, and of course using FAA recommended teaching methods. If what you say confuses another CFI, you'll dig yourself a hole. I'm not saying you will, and I know you didn't post your resonses as if you were teaching a student. Just don't start of an explanation with lift equations and VG diagrams. Work your way up to it. I can tell you have a good level of techincal knowledge. That's a good thing, but the temptation (read that to mean not neccessarily your temptation) is to try to show off a little, and the FAA will see right through that. Again, certainly not saying you will, just be carefull.
 
flyguy said:
Desertdog,

Just a quick word of advise for your oral. Keep it simple. They will ask you enough technical questions to determine your level of knowledge. As for your teaching they will not be impressed with how much you know, but your ability to make it understandable to laymen, while keeping it accurate and thorough, and of course using FAA recommended teaching methods. If what you say confuses another CFI, you'll dig yourself a hole. I'm not saying you will, and I know you didn't post your resonses as if you were teaching a student. Just don't start of an explanation with lift equations and VG diagrams. Work your way up to it. I can tell you have a good level of techincal knowledge. That's a good thing, but the temptation is to try to show off a little, and the FAA will see right through that. Again, certainly not saying you will, just be carefull.
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Yeah. I get that. I am pretty sure that it was someone else that busted out the Calculus on us though. I could draw a picture and explain this much easier. Vg Diagram is all I could think of right away for what I was saying. :)

On a side note though. I enjoy these sessions with Meritflyer, because I usually learn something from them.
 
When I took my initital they told me to keep it 2nd grade - literally. You should've seen some of the elementary stuff the inspector had me do.
 
Like color in my coloring book and play hangman... but that was after my cookies and milk but just before my nap on my play mat.
 
desertdog71 said:
Yeah. I get that. I am pretty sure that it was someone else that busted out the Calculus on us though. I could draw a picture and explain this much easier. Vg Diagram is all I could think of right away for what I was saying. :)

On a side note though. I enjoy these sessions with Meritflyer, because I usually learn something from them.
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I can neither confirm nor deny the use of calculus in any discussion or explanation I have made to this point, in short, I did not have sexual relat....

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How about you guys go hop in an airplane and at cruise power bring the power back and tell him to maintain altitude....of course he has to bring up the nose right.... now tell him "the slower we go the more air we gotta stick under the wings to keep her up !!!"
 
I just started my commercial (read: NOT a CFI), but I simplify it like this:

The faster the air moves over the wing, the more lift it will produce. There are 2 ways to make air move faster over the wing:

1) make the wing go through the air faster (fly the plane fast)
2) pitch the wing up to a higher AoA.

If the plane itself isn't moving fast, you have to use option #2 to create enough lift to keep the plane from decending.
 
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