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Teaching Practical Risk Management

Objective​

Understand the responsibility of the instruction to mitigate risks associated with teaching, and teach students to evaluate risk systematically.

Motivation​

Effective risk management is one of the most important skills a pilot needs to learn, understand, and practice as a habit.

Timing​

  • 30 minutes

Format​

Elements​

  • Teaching risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
  • Teaching risk management tools, including:
    • Pilot/Aircraft/enVironment/External Pressures (PAVE) checklist
    • Flight Risk Assessment Tools (FRATs)
  • When and how to introduce risk management.
  • Risk management teaching techniques by phase of instruction.
  • Managing risk during flight instruction, including:
    • Common flight instruction risks
    • Best practices
    • Special considerations while teaching takeoffs and landings
  • Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) to include using Crew Resource Management (CRM) or Single-Pilot Resource Management (SRM), as appropriate.
  • Hazards associated with providing flight instruction.
  • Obstacles to maintaining situational awareness during flight instruction.
  • Recognizing and managing hazards arising from human behavior, including hazardous attitudes.
  • Use scenario-based training (SBT) to demonstrate, teach, and assess risk management and Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) skills in the context of a Task specified by the evaluator.
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate risks commonly associated with flight instruction by maintaining:
    • Awareness and oversight of the learner’s actions, with timely and appropriate supervision, intervention, or mitigation as needed
    • Awareness of the learner’s cognitive/physiological state, with timely action to mitigate anxiety, fatigue, or other obstruction to learning
    • Overall situational awareness of the aircraft’s dynamic state, its position in space, and vigilance for unexpected events or changing circumstances that occur in the environment
  • Model and teach safety practices, including maintaining:
    • Collision avoidance while simultaneously providing instruction
    • Avoidance of unnecessary distractions
    • Coordinated flight
    • Awareness of who is manipulating controls through positive exchange of flight controls
    • Continuous awareness of the aircraft’s dynamic state and position in the NAS

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