Relay-Version: B 2.11 6/12/87; site scorn
Path: uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!wisch
From: wisch@Apple.COM (Ed Wischmeyer)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: Latest from Flight Instructor Revalidation Clinic
Message-ID: <45668@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 16:29:57 PDT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 67


Here's all the latest from this weekend's flight
instructor refresher clinic run by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation.

****Flight instruction is *not* considered a commercial operation.
You have to hold a commercial license to get a flight instructor
certificate, but you only need a third (3rd) class physical to
get or exercise a flight instructor certificate.  If you are not
PIC and not a required crewmember (ie, not a safety pilot), you can
instruct with *no* medical, and get paid for it.  However, you do
need a third to get an initial flight instructor certificate.

US average: 75 hrs, from earthling to private.

1. Don't land till you get to the airport.
2. Pee every chance you get.

"Asking me to overlook safety because of your time constraints
is asking me to re-evaluate the value I place on your life."

75% of human failures in accidents involved someone who was
either going through a divorce/marriage or a change of career.

DC-10 accident in Mexico City some years back:  The captain was
apparently regarded as a jerk, and he had written up the flight
engineer for having hair too long.  The flight engineer was in
turn having an affair with a lady in the back of the plane, who
was flying to Mexico City to get a divorce from her husband, the
second officer.  Talk about cockpit stress!!

Risk assessment - before every flight, ask yourself, what TAPES
am I playing?
Time - what time pressures are there during the flight, like lowering 
weather, sunset, fuel.
Aircraft - what shape is it in?
Pilot - more on that below.
Environment - weather, winds, ATC, airport conditions
Situation - what happens if I don't get there?

Pilot checklist - IM SAFE
Illness
Medication
Stress - especially job, marriage, friends, etc
Alcohol
Fatigue
Eating habits

At one British base, they cut their accident rate 80% by checking each
flight crew for stress before they launched.  Low risk aircrews
were dispatched, medium risk aircrews needed a signoff by the *Base Commander*
and high risk aircrews were not allowed to fly.

Student pilots do not need to carry a logbook.

Average pilot flies 10 hrs/year.

Can give a BFR in a simulator with FSDO approval.

766 midairs in last 30 years, 44% had no fatalities.  19 midairs between GA
and air carrier, 32% of these with no fatalities.  50% of fatalities were
a faster low wing overtaking a slower high wing on final approach.  50% of
midairs involve flight instruction.

"I appreciate golf courses.  They keep a lot of idiots out of the sky."

Ed Wischmeyer
CFII and all that