Adamcfi

10/10/2021

I know I havent been all that active lately. Its because I have been working hard to develop Laminar Training Solutions LLC.

Oh, and now LTS is a TEAM!

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Training Design, E-Learning Development, LMS Implementation, and Aviation Expert Services

12/06/2020

I keep hearing warnings about Ice Bridging on boot equipped planes.... I thought it was a myth, here we go with some evidence!

Ice bridging is the idea that if you operate the boots too early, you will stretch the ice but not fracture it. When the boot deflates following the cycle, the stretched ice will remain, with more ice building on top of it. Yet there is not a single test conducted in anyone’s icing research wind t...

05/28/2020

Well, the FAA Aviation Instructors Handbook was revised and released today... a few first impressions:

- They have changed a few of the terms. They changed any reference to "Student" into "Learner", I like that. Its more in line with modern instructional design terms.

- Social Learning is in there now! That's great as I am having a hard time convincing aviation to embrace the open ended nature of social learning. Now its in a handbook I can refer to...

- Blooms taxonomy was really pared down. Probably a good idea as the diagram was hard to follow if you had never seen it.

-Schema Theory (One of my favorites!) is in there now under Concept Learning. It explains a lot of change resistance in students and even seasoned professional.

- They still left in that discussion of "Learning Styles" even though they admit people don't agree in the evidence to support them...oh well...

-A new addition is the "Learning route to expertise". I highly recommend a CFI review this short section as its very applicable and can help a CFI be more patient with their "Learner". Experts live in a completely different realm then beginners.

They replaced lots of graphics for sure but I am not sure they are any better.

Hey CFI's...Have you taken a look? What do you see as the biggest differences?

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/aviation_instructors_handbook/

05/18/2020

David St George does a great job at summarizing some of the skills that identify an advanced CFI. These are at the crux of the CFI staring blankly back at the student that asks "what do you think i should do here?"

With the slow down in the aviation industry I REALLY hope the tenure of CFI's increases enough to allow them to see this development in themselves. I feel like I never even started to build this skill until i had been teaching over 1 year!

Achieving expertise in piloting requires so many diverse skills and aptitudes it almost defies explanation. In aviation, we point to experts like Sully or Al Haynes (pick your favorite) to model expertise, but we are often frustrated trying to recreate these remarkable attributes in our students. Dr...

04/11/2020

I worked my way through the certs and ratings around the beginning of the "software designed to help memorize" era. I actually used the Gleim and ASA test prep to learn and practice the concepts I had trouble with when taking the practice tests. Many of the questions were ridiculous and very hard to answer correctly without some sort of guide (distance to a VOR by flying a 90 intercept between two radials???).

I was happy to hear the knowledge tests were being revamped and the "ridiculous" questions were being removed. I was also disheartened when I saw the rise of the rote memorization leveraged prep software. People would score a 92% on the knowledge test and couldn't plot a course from one point to another!

If the FAA continues in this direction the knowledge test will develop into what it needed to be. The FAA already did a fine job revising the handbooks IMHO and made them very usable as well as removed the useless concepts that made the scope of a test very difficult to study in preparation.

I like it!

In January 2020, the FAA announced major changes to the way that knowledge tests will operate.

04/09/2020

If you have a little down time....heres a X-C flight planning quiz from when I worked with CAU!

https://www.adamcfi.com/?page_id=709

Post and let me know how you fare!

Click on the link to launch a fun quiz to test your skills in flight planning. This project was developed for an aeronautical university and is used in their Private Pilot Course. Launch the quiz here

01/29/2020

The Speed of Technology vs. the Speed of Aviation Culture Technology is changing and improving at a very high speed. I think most can agree that this has had a serious "disruptive" affect on how we live day to day. Fortunately in most cases the speed at which we can adapt and integrate technology in our personal lives is relatively fast for most people. [ 1,526 more word ]

How has technologies pace of development affected aviation culture? Are we seeing variation in behavior change as a result?

01/18/2020

Micro-learning and Aviation. How have the behaviors of trainees evolved and how might aviation failed to keep up?

Can professional recurrent training evolve? How can it evolve to meet the behaviors of modern learners? I think it can!