midlifeflyer
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Not necessarily. The CFI is a little different than the others. In part it's a general trend as we move up in certificates and ratings.minitour said:
The PTS alone doesn't make a particularly good syllabus for the private certificate and instrument rating. The PTS focuses on the end results while a syllabus needs to focus on the building blocks to get there. The student pilot and instrument student really don;t have a base to work from.
The PTS gets better as a syllabus when we get to the commercial. Most of the tasks are things we've done before, just to tighter tolerances. And we already have the building blocks for the new tasks. A syllabus to put the course in some kind of order is still a good idea, but it doesn't take the amount of thought that the private and instrument do.
By the time we get to the CFI, we have, as others pointed out, pretty much covered all the stuff, just adding the piece called "instructional knowledge," As CFIs, we need to jump around anyway - first lesson with a primary student followed by a student who is up to the 3 hours of tweaking for her private followed by teaching lazy 8s to a commercial applicant followed by a FR for a retired airline pilot who is transitioning back to a 172. In that context, the PTS, with minor tweaking for scheduling purposes, becomes a pretty good syllabus.
