Re: Took the CFI Written Today! :0)

> Congrats CC;
> One step closer.
> Dudley

Thanks Dudley! But ahead of me is what seems to be a 'vast chasm' to cross
(but a success I will definitely achieve, in-time) - I have so much to
learn in terms of the teaching process - by comparison, the CFI written will
probably turn out to have been the 'easiest' (relatively speaking) of what I
will go through to achieve my C.F.I.

What I am finding the hardest, so far, is the teaching and describing of a
maneuver or flight attitude; i.e., developing the skill of 'distilling' the
process/procedure to an explanation that is concise, cogent yet crystal
clear in its' simplicity. Right now I find myself kind of 'spectatoring';
analyzing what I am about to say, almost from a 'third person' view which
right now leads to mental second guessing of what I am about to verbalize
and has me stumbling a bit. I'll be so glad when this comes as naturally as
did some of the other things I have had to learn for my other certificates
and ratings which at first seemed difficult too.

On a side note, maybe you can explain why my instructor thought it was
important for me to know this formula, the one for calculating Lift which is
the Coefficient of lift times velocity squared times area times ?/2 (can't
find a symbol for rho that will print in my newsgroup reader) 'rho' which
represents the density of air in slugs per cubic foot.

Now he had told me that this was NOT something that I would be imparting to
a student, rather it was something that I should know as a flight instructor
(and might possibly be asked in an oral).

While I suppose it allows one to recognize which factors affect the value of
lift, this kind of knowledge strikes me as just being a little esoteric for
my tastes. How could knowing such a thing be of value to a flight
instructor? I'm wondering if my CFII just has a strong mathematical
background/aptitude and that's why he 'likes' the equation. One of my
clients in my IT consulting business is a university graduate studies
mathematics professor. He actually has a bulletin in his home office area
of some various complex-looking formulas. Since only he is there to see
these postings it was always clear to me that he didn't have them up for
purposes of showing off; rather it seems that he admires the elegance of
being able to represent a concept or phenomenon within a concise formula.
So, perhaps that is my CFI's interest in such things?

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Good Flights!

Cecil E. Chapman
CP-ASEL-IA

Student - C.F.I.

Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -
"Dudley Henriques" <dhenriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Cecil Chapman" <bayareapilot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7oD5f.6442$Zv5.5885@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I had actually begun studying for the CFI Written during my Commercial
>>training (after I had already completed the Commercial Written and went
>>ahead and took the Fundamentals of Instruction exam). I started studying
>>so 'early' because I was just in a studying kind of mood and wanted to 'go
>>with the feeling', as it were.
>>
>> Today, I decided that I'd done enough practice tests and that I would
>> just go ahead and take the test.
>>
>> I was expecting (based on my Gleim test prep software sessions) that I
>> would score in the mid 80's or maybe the high 80's at the very best.
>>
>> Well I finished the exam and waited for my result.... I really wasn't
>> worried about failing the test, but now I was more wondering what score I
>> had managed to get (mainly because we all can think of items that we were
>> unsure of and we tend to magnify how many questions those were <g>).
>>
>> Test results printed out and I accidentally let out and inadvertent
>> little shout when I saw my score on the CFI Written: 94 % !
>>
>> Yeah, I know 100% would have been even better but I was just thrilled
>> with that score. I called my wife at work and she was pretty happy. I
>> gave my CFI a call and at first pretended that I had really bombed and
>> then let him know my score! <g>
>>
>> I have to run off to the kitchen, my wife brought home a big sheet cake
>> (large enough so that I can bring pieces to other family and friends in
>> the morning and have some for us) to celebrate!
>>
>> That's about it! Yaay! I'm finally finished with written tests! <GRIN>
>>
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>> =-----
>> Good Flights!
>>
>> Cecil E. Chapman
>> CP-ASEL-IA
>>
>> Student - C.F.I.
>>
>> Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
>> checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
>> Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com
>>
>> "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
>> - Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
>>
>> "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
>> this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
>> - Cecil Day Lewis -
>>
>
>


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