AVI 320
Flight Instructor-Airplane

Credit:  3 hours.


Prepares the commercial pilot for an FAA Flight Instructor (Airplane) certificate. Includes forty-five hours classroom instruction on fundamentals of teaching, student motivation, blocks to learning, stress, cognitive approaches to learning, flight instructor duties/responsibilities, lesson planning and development, aerodynamics, and pertinent federal aviation regulations. Includes 22 hours of flight training and instruction and three hours in flight simulator teaching techniques in the flight laboratory. Also includes a one hour flight check for course completion. Students enrolling in this course will also participate in up to 5 hours of research flight experiments Prerequisite: Commercial Pilot certificate with instrument rating and consent of director.

Additional Flight Fee is Required. Departmental approval by Chief of Pilot Training is required. Students must register for one lecture-discussion and one flight section.