FIGHT INSTRUCTOR REVAILDATION CLINIC
Sponsored by Philadelphia Glider Council
Can revalidate any CFI, CFI-I, CFI-G
Date: February 19 & 20
Location: Revivals Restaurant
4 South Ridge Rd (Rt 563)
Perkasie, PA 18944
215-258-3463
Time: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Fee: $150
Instructor: Tom Knauff - FAA DE
Other subject matter experts
Contact/Registration: Phil Klauder
More Information: www.pgcsoaring.org
THIS IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIRC -
Question: Why Should an airplane CFI attend a “glider” related
Revalidation Clinic?
Answer: You will learn a new slant on traditional information from
another highly informed perspective. For example:
Aeronautical Decision Making – What are the options to consider when
faced with limited resources and it all comes down to the fundamentals
of flight?
Off Field Landings – Glider pilots are experts at off-airport landings
– Learn more that you have ever been taught about how to make good off-
field landing decisions and execute an uneventful non-airport landing.
You will hear things you have never heard as an airplane CFI.
Teaching Landings – How do you teach students to get the pattern and
landing right every time with no possibility of a go-around or a
pattern re-boot. Glider pilots do it for their entire career.
Collision Avoidance – Enhanced techniques when flying what is
practically a “stealth” aircraft - A composite glider doesn’t show up
on radar and is very difficult to see. Learn how to enhance see-and-be-
seen techniques to augment technology solutions.
New information ● New perspective ● New ideas
(You will have fun avoiding the same old re-hashed
information you have sat through for years at
re-validation clinics)
FIRC Educational Topics
• Accident review, safety trends, risk management
• Aeronautical decision making
• CFI Legal Issues
• Collision Avoidance
• FAA/Industry Standards
• Flight Information, Publications
• Fundamentals of Flight Instruction – Effective teaching
• GPS computers
• Launch emergencies (PT3) (CRM)
• Line up & wait
• Open Forum
• Pilot deviations
• Recurrency Training (BFR),
• Runway incursions
• Security related Airspace, TSA
• Teaching Aerodynamics - Lesson one
• Teaching Benign Spiral Mode.
• Teaching Stalls
• Teaching Landings
• Technically advanced aircraft
• Teaching Off Field Landings
• Teaching Turning stalls
• Transition Training
• Using Checklists
• What pilots really need to know about Weather