Lesson Planning Redux

[JediNein]

Greetings,

I'm taking a break from wading through the Sport Pilot regs and associated handbooks; deep into creating a new lesson plan section on the Sport Pilot Airplane.

With that comes the ever present question of how to best format the plans. I want the ground lessons usable while teaching the sessions. The flight lessons should be simple enough for an instructor to review before the flight, inflight, if they forgot what to do, a kneeboard listing should be sufficient.

So for those that have extra time on their hands, which set of lesson plans look better, more thorough, more complete, more teachable:
http://pages.prodigy.net/jedinein/cfi/1steep.htm Private Pilot Flight Lesson
http://pages.prodigy.net/jedinein/cfi/ifr/lesson03.htm Instrument Lesson Plan
http://pages.prodigy.net/jedinein/mel/steepturns.html Multiengine Lesson Plan


Any comments on the above, format-wise? Any DPEs, CFI initial instructors, or others care to weigh in on old instructor handbook format examples versus the new handbook 'we don't care' format examples?

Any comments on FITS (FAA/Industry Training Standards) formatting and content, or if a scenario can be incorporated into the lesson plan? I know of an Ercoupe with a Garmin 430 installed, so even a Sport Airplane can be a TAA (technically advanced aircraft).

While topic lesson plans are pretty, do they stand by themselves with a syllabus to be a package? Or is it time to start with a syllabus, throw in the topic lesson plans, and add some scenario lesson plans at the end to address the ADM/judgment issues? I don't think pilots are able to cope with a self-directed scenario until they know how to fly the airplane. Comments, ideas?

Thanks!
Jedi Nein

 

[CougarAviator]

I just received my CFI- Initial. For my lesson plans, I just used the format in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook. I ended up with 2, 2" binders......(I went deep on a lot of lesson plans..)

I believe you did the same thing, JediNein.

The plans you did, look great!!!!

Just my 2 cents...............

 

[bobbysamd]

Lesson Plans

As long as you format your lesson plans according to the example in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook, AC 60-14 (p. 102 of my edition, which is the Aviation Maintenance Publishers reprint) or successor edition, no examiner should give you grief. Your Steep Turns example looks great. It comports to the example and goes beyond.

Don't ask why my copy of the FOI happens to be at hand, it just is.

 

[bobbysamd]

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[midlifeflyer]

no examiner should give you grief.

Um. If you check Jedi's profile, I wouldn't worry about examiners giving her grief about her lesson plans. I don't think they are for her checkride; I think they're more like her gift to new CFIs.

 

[bobbysamd]

I did read her profile, yes.