My day starts at 0600 with me getting up and putting on the coffee.
While the coffee is brewing I get on the computer to see what the weather will be like.
I eat breakfast while pretending to teach today's lesson, trying to speak as if I was in the plane.
After performing my morning ritual which to a spectator would make me seem completely mad I gather all three bags of stuff that I need and head out.
I get picked up by my instructor and we proceed to the airport which is about an hours drive from Stockholm.
After arriving at the airport the weird part of the day begins. This is where my instructor (who is FAR more experienced than me) loses all his flying skills and knowledge and becomes my student.
This is a very strange sensation, I don't have half the knowledge and skill of this man and yet now I have to act as though he is my student.
The session starts with a short briefing of today's flying lesson.
Here we cover what maneuvers we are going to train and some theory to back it all up with.
For example if we are going to train turning I don't simply go through how to enter,hold and exit a turn. I go through in detail how to enter, hold and exit a turn but I will also go through WHY we do what we do.This includes explaining the forces that act on the airplane while turning.
It's simple for a student to learn a list of actions but he/she also have to know why we do what we do.
We also go through weather, the students planning for the day, weight and balance and some other stuff.
After the briefing we head out to the plane, do the preflight inspection, get in, start the engine and start taxiing.
Remember that my instructor is still my student so he will mess up everything, checklists, taxiing, flying, everything.
When we get airborne it's time to start the lesson. The usual way to perform a lesson is that I begin by explaining the maneuver followed by me demonstrating and explaining.
Now it's time for my "student" to try the maneuver. This is where it becomes tricky for me, I have to identify not only the faults but the root cause of the faults and tell my student how to fix this.
After about an hour of me trying to teach my instructor how to fly we land.
After we refuel and get the plane back to the hangar it's time to debrief.
This is where I go through the flying lesson with my instructor (who still is my student). I tell him what he did good and what he did wrong (usually a lot) and we discuss how to fix these faults.
Finally after a long time of pretending to teach the teacher I get to be the student. We go through if I could have done anything differently, how to better use the time, if I missed any faults in his flying etc.
After doing two or more sets of the above we finally head home for some much needed rest, the days usually run as long as 12h.
So there you have it, a day in the life of an instructor student.
While the coffee is brewing I get on the computer to see what the weather will be like.
I eat breakfast while pretending to teach today's lesson, trying to speak as if I was in the plane.
After performing my morning ritual which to a spectator would make me seem completely mad I gather all three bags of stuff that I need and head out.
I get picked up by my instructor and we proceed to the airport which is about an hours drive from Stockholm.
After arriving at the airport the weird part of the day begins. This is where my instructor (who is FAR more experienced than me) loses all his flying skills and knowledge and becomes my student.
This is a very strange sensation, I don't have half the knowledge and skill of this man and yet now I have to act as though he is my student.
The session starts with a short briefing of today's flying lesson.
Here we cover what maneuvers we are going to train and some theory to back it all up with.
For example if we are going to train turning I don't simply go through how to enter,hold and exit a turn. I go through in detail how to enter, hold and exit a turn but I will also go through WHY we do what we do.This includes explaining the forces that act on the airplane while turning.
It's simple for a student to learn a list of actions but he/she also have to know why we do what we do.
We also go through weather, the students planning for the day, weight and balance and some other stuff.
After the briefing we head out to the plane, do the preflight inspection, get in, start the engine and start taxiing.
Remember that my instructor is still my student so he will mess up everything, checklists, taxiing, flying, everything.
When we get airborne it's time to start the lesson. The usual way to perform a lesson is that I begin by explaining the maneuver followed by me demonstrating and explaining.
Now it's time for my "student" to try the maneuver. This is where it becomes tricky for me, I have to identify not only the faults but the root cause of the faults and tell my student how to fix this.
After about an hour of me trying to teach my instructor how to fly we land.
After we refuel and get the plane back to the hangar it's time to debrief.
This is where I go through the flying lesson with my instructor (who still is my student). I tell him what he did good and what he did wrong (usually a lot) and we discuss how to fix these faults.
Finally after a long time of pretending to teach the teacher I get to be the student. We go through if I could have done anything differently, how to better use the time, if I missed any faults in his flying etc.
After doing two or more sets of the above we finally head home for some much needed rest, the days usually run as long as 12h.
So there you have it, a day in the life of an instructor student.
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