Instructor Rating
If you love your flying and want to share your knowledge with others or wish to start your flying career, our Instructor Rating Course is for you. It is a challenging course that will take your flying skills and flight management to the next level beyond your Commercial Licence. In some ways it’s like learning to fly all over again, with the exception that you are learning so that you can teach others.
The syllabus for an Instructor Rating course is made up of 3 components:
PMI – The Principles and Methods of Instruction Course is a theory course that looks at how people learn, the best ways to teach, and some of the common difficulties that can arise in the student/instructor relationship (and how to deal with them!). It provides the basis for the rest of the Instructor Rating Course.
Briefings – There are two types of briefings in which an instructor must be proficient – Long briefings (classroom briefings) and pre-flight briefings. This section of the course ensures that your theory is up to a professional level and will also improve your presentation skills. Valuable in any field, not just aviation!
Flying – The Instructor Rating course includes 50 hours (minimum) of flying. 30 hours dual with a Grade 1 instructor - this is where you learn to teach all sequences from Ab Initio to Commercial in the air. The remaining 20 hours is made up of mutual flying – where you practice what you have learned in the dual flying with a fellow instructor trainee.
For further information, contact our CFI.
Aerobatic Endorsement
Our instructors will start you off with the basic aerobatic endorsement which consists of the following manoeuvres: loop, barrel roll, slow roll, roll off the top and stall turn per CASA requirements. A prerequisite of the aerobatic endorsement is a spinning endorsement, which is normally done at the same time. Our basic aerobatic course includes recoveries from extreme unusual attitudes, failed manoeuvres and unintentional spins.
Instrument Rating
The command instrument rating (CIR) allows you to fly in cloud during day or night. The CIR takes a minimum of 40 hours flight training covering such things as navigational aid tracking, instrument approach and landing procedures, departure procedures and emergency procedures.
Coolangatta is ideally placed to provide this type of training. Three airports have ILS approaches in the local area. There are also airports with VOR, NDB, and GPS non-precision approaches that are all within a few minutes’ flight time.
Formation Endorsement
Ever wanted to fly like the Roulettes?
This endorsement is not for every pilot who gains his or her PPL. Some find the thought of flying so close to another aircraft a little daunting but for those who take up this form of flying there is generally something a little special about having a formation endorsement. Requirements are you must have a current PPL. Formation endorsement training is generally done with two pilots who seek the endorsement, two formation endorsed instructors and obviously two aircraft. Flight time required is around 10 (ten) hours - 5 hrs as leader and 5 hrs maintaining station on the leader, with some theory and whiteboard work.
Constant Speed / Retractable Undercarriage Endorsement
A short training course and aircraft endorsement must be completed in order to move up to more sophisticated aeroplanes with design features such as constant speed units (CSU) and retractable undercarriages. Upon successful completion you will be able to fly with passengers in the aircraft you have been endorsed on, provided you have maintained a GFPT as a minimum.
Multi Engine Endorsement
Twin-engine aircraft are generally faster, have the ability to fly higher, have more seats and most important, safer. This also means more complex as well with two of just about everything to think about. However, should an engine fail in flight, a twin will give you options that you just don't have in a single.
You will cover in detail the many aspects of twin flying including the more complex systems that will be found on twin-engine aircraft. You will also cover asymmetric flight (single engine flight) with engine failures in all phases of flight from takeoff to cruising to landing. Theory for the endorsement includes comprehensive briefings on all aspects of multi engine flying. |
