CFIcast #12 - Certified Female Instructors - 2007.09.27

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CFIcast #12 - Certified Female Instructors - 2007.09.27 - Certified Flight Instructor Aviation Podcast



Enjoy listening and learning as you eavesdrop on the Hangar Flying conversation with Certified Flight Instructors!

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The CFIcast #12 CFI panel:

• Your host: Rick Durden, CFI, Aviation lawyer and author of "The Pilot's Lounge" column on AvWeb.com and articles for AOPA Pilot and Aviation Safety, from Grand Rapids, Michigan Rick hosts a panel of female CFIs:
• Kate Bernard, CFI, from Neenah, WI. Kate is developing a new Light Sport Pilot training program and is an instructor with Able Flight, a program that grants scholarships for challenged person to obtain Light Sport Pilot certificates.
• Dr. Judith Parrish-Jones, PhD., CFI, Professor of Geology and past Dean of Science at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
• Terri Watson, CFI, a pioneering U.S. Army veteran pilot, Commercial Fixed and Rotor wing pilot from Santa Rosa, CA.

Topics discussed by CFIcast Certified Flight Instructor panel:

• Teaching female flight students.
• The different typical student learning styles of women vs. men.
• Should the CFI use different techniques for men vs. women?
• Women and men require different motivations to fly.
• Encouraging a lapsed student or student that has a bad experience.
• Working out the match with the student and CFI.
• How male instructors can avoid talking down to female students
• How women students and pilots can deal with discrimination.
• How woman pilots can socialize.
  • The Ninety-Nines
  • Women in Aviation International
  • The AAUW - The American Association of University Women
• Marketing aviation to the public.
  • Building and marketing a new Light Sport Pilot school.
  • How to recruit more women CFIs.
  • How to encourage kids to get excited about aviation.
  • Elders too? They will want to get the brain exercise

Recorded Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:57:21 - 26.3MB

http://pilotcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=427362

(Rick said this is the best CFICast so far - Ed )

 

[vontresc]

Recorded Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:57:21 - 26.3MB

Nice to see you are getting these out in a quick, and timely fashion

 

[maddog52]

I was wondering if they are using CERTIFIED FEMALE flight instructors to prevent the East Germans from sneekiing in not quite female CERTIFICATED flight instructors.

 

[tonycondon]

yippee!

 

[TMetzinger]

I liked it - now hurry up and do another one. Click and Clack get one out every week, ya know!