Special Emphasis Areas

fisher37

fisher37

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I'm working on my CFI notebook and I'm having some trouble figuring out what to include. Have you guys in the past included the entire Advisory Circulars in your notebook? The one I'm mostly talking about is the Stall and Spin Awareness. It's a 20 page AC. Not really wanting to print that all out.
 
I didn't but I know a guy that did.
If you know the information, it won't matter if it is in the binder or not.

There seems to be a lot CFI binder questions lately. Good luck guys.

edit: fisher, that picture rocks. Did you take it?
 
I must have missed a memo.

I'm about this >< close to my CFI checkride and this is the first I've heard of needing a "CFI Notebook" and I obviously don't know enough to know if I should be worried
 
What am I "supposed" to know? I mean...I'm using the gleim instructor manual for this business...and they don't have much about stall/spin awareness in it...which surprises me much. A lot of my friends are taking sections out of the AC, but how do you decide what to copy and paste out of it?

That picture does rock! I stole it from a friend of mine. It felt like it fit there since I fly that plane often :)

The CFI notebook isn't required, it's just a helpful tool to use to teach the lessons and such that the FSDO will want you to teach. It's a pretty big pain, but I've heard that it helps a ton. My CFI ground instuctor is a huge pain in the rear about them, but hey, he's just trying to help us!
 
I made a one page list of all the special emphasis areas and a reference for each.

I did not print the Stall/Spin AC because I could teach that backwards and inside out at this point. It's all in the AFH too.
 
I had a small CFI binder that my CFI instructor gave me as part of the curriculum. It didn't have a bunch of info in it, but it did have some useful info...such as AC-65-61.

I've updated mine w/ things I need to refer to on an occasional basis - 65-61, TSA stuff, and other articles for BFRs, etc.
 
Mike H said:
I must have missed a memo.
I'm about this >< close to my CFI checkride and this is the first I've heard of needing a "CFI Notebook" and I obviously don't know enough to know if I should be worried
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Most CFIs put a binder together during their training with all their lesson plans, ACs, and whatever other material they want in it. It's not a requirement or anything, but most find it useful on the checkride and during instruction. I put a lesson plan for every task in the PTS and a copy of AC 61-65E in mine.
 
The only ones I have printed and available are:

AC 61 134 CFIT
AC 61 67C Stall and Spin Awareness

The rest is conveniently located on the desktop of my Laptop for easy and quick reference.

I was told to be able to rattle off the current 14 Special Emphasis Areas being able to go in depth on each one as seen fit by the POI during the test.

CFI Checkride within the next 3 weeks - spinning in high gear.
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I would not print them out. It's a waste of paper IMO. You should (and probably do) understand Stalls and spins enough for your checkride where you won't have to look at the AC. Take your Airplane Flying Manual, and Pilots Handbook of Aeronatical Knowledge and if you stumble look it up in there.

Cessna414JJB said:
I was told to be able to rattle off the current 14 Special Emphasis Areas being able to go in depth on each one as seen fit by the POI during the test.
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:yeahthat:
You should understand all of the Special Emphasis Areas. Be ready to talk about them. Some examiners LOVE talking about them, and some won't even mention them, but it's best to be prepared. You should be able to explain these very easily. The first question in my CFI oral was "What is Positive Aircraft Control?" I'd highly recommend taking the wings course on that. It's pretty short I think, but will give you a good understanding of it.
 
One more thing I'd recommend is updating your PTS. Download the current PTS, cut out all the revisions and tape them into your PTS. I did not do this more my CFI ride, and my examiner was not happy about it. Single Pilot Resource Management is a new addition to the SEAs and is probably not in any published version. You're responsible for the revisions.
 
juxtapilot said:
One more thing I'd recommend is updating your PTS. Download the current PTS, cut out all the revisions and tape them into your PTS. I did not do this more my CFI ride, and my examiner was not happy about it. Single Pilot Resource Management is a new addition to the SEAs and is probably not in any published version. You're responsible for the revisions.
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VERY good idea!
 
tjvpa28 said:
It's not a requirement or anything, but most find it useful on the checkride and during instruction.
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That actually depends on the Examiner's interpretation/execution of:
IV. AREA OF OPERATION: PREFLIGHT LESSON ON A MANEUVER TO BE PERFORMED IN FLIGHT
From the FAA pubs in the references, which form the substance of the TASK, it is pretty clear that the FAA expects a lesson to be taught from a formalized lesson plan.

It used to be you were expected to be able to do this "on the fly" - make it up on the spot. The Examiner, after a reasonable technical Q&A, would take a "30-minute coffee break", during which time you would make up a lesson plan for a particular maneuver, and then present it from the lesson plan. And some still do this, I hear, but mostly they expect a pre-prepared group of lesson plans. YMMV
 
Mike H said:
I must have missed a memo.

I'm about this >< close to my CFI checkride and this is the first I've heard of needing a "CFI Notebook" and I obviously don't know enough to know if I should be worried
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Mike, has our FSDO given you the two examiners you can choose from yet? Let me know if/when they do and I can give you a gouge on what to expect.

Regarding the CFI binder--not required, but I did one just to help me prepare and become familiar with everything and anything that I could have to teach. Also, any random magazine articles, internet stuff that could be relevant to the learning process I put in there.

My examiner didn't care that I had lesson plans prepared before the ride. He had me close my binder and then gave me three lesson plans that he wanted written out by hand.

It was by far the most intense ride I have taken (6.5 oral and 2.3 flight)
 
nosehair said:
That actually depends on the Examiner's interpretation/execution of:
IV. AREA OF OPERATION: PREFLIGHT LESSON ON A MANEUVER TO BE PERFORMED IN FLIGHT
From the FAA pubs in the references, which form the substance of the TASK, it is pretty clear that the FAA expects a lesson to be taught from a formalized lesson plan.

It used to be you were expected to be able to do this "on the fly" - make it up on the spot. The Examiner, after a reasonable technical Q&A, would take a "30-minute coffee break", during which time you would make up a lesson plan for a particular maneuver, and then present it from the lesson plan. And some still do this, I hear, but mostly they expect a pre-prepared group of lesson plans. YMMV
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That's right...I would not recommend going to a CFI checkride without a library of lesson plans.
 
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