TRAINING SKILLS FOR TRAINING PILOTS

Are you a training pilot in an airline with years of experience behind you or are you new to teaching pilots? Whatever your experience level this book will help you to become a more effective instructor. It’ll question or confirm everything you’ve done or thought about while training. Captain Keith doesn’t want you to be as good as he is …he wants you to be better …to be the best that you can be for your students. If you want to improve the quality of your training methods then somewhere in these 69,000 words you’ll find something of value to you. But you don’t have to read all of it. Even the author says if it bores you or you don’t like it just skip it until you get to a bit that works for you. The book is the result of 55 years of teaching, from private pilots to the highest levels of airline qualifications. The author admits that it’s only because he’s free of employment with an airline that he can speak so openly. His style is different, he respectfully challenges many of the traditional techniques and offers ways to adjust them to hit the highest standards. A good enough trainer is not good enough because it’s easy to be outstanding using the right methods and placing the student at the centre of the learning process…. that’s all the serious stuff out of the way… this book is entertaining engaging and will make you chuckle or laugh out loud. Nothing is sacred … there are pictures of three coffins dedicated to the memory of three outrageously awful training pilots who had no interest in training except bullying others. Why shouldn’t they be named, bearing in mind the agony they inflicted? Why shouldn’t instructors who cut their fingernails while briefing for a simulator session be called out? Or others who bully rather than help people to learn. Weed these imposters out. With years of teaching experience, he has the confidence and authority to challenge the status quo. But this isn’t a book of criticism, as he says it’s a “”maybe we could”” book. There aren’t many books out there to help training pilots to train pilots so this is the best there is. But even if there were hundreds available …this would still be the best. It proposes High Quality In Depth Learning (HQIDL) as a way to improve learning and also, the author reckons, could cut training costs by at least 25%. — ISBN13: 9781695186101