Coaching & Instructing Join Forces

1. Coaching & Instructing Join Forces Change in the air Thermalling Lookout Lead and Follow Method of thinking Don’t let pilots learn by themselves.

2. Nationally Coaches Experience • Students were inherently safe pilots • Could not thermal • They were poor at lookout.

3. Change in the air • Blending Coaching and Instruction • Improve the efficiency of flying • Greater effort on thermalling • Glider Pilots Certificate = Independent operator

4. The Reason Behind Changes • Fast track pilots to be able to soar well • To maintain membership.

5. Thermalling • Most students think that • That the yaw string should be down the middle when thermalling • That they should thermal as slow as possible • Do not understand the importance of angle of bank, or certainly can not fly at 45°. X

6. Bank • Put Straws or some bank indicator on the glider • If we wish to bank accurately within a couple of degrees how can we do it without a guide? • Why do they get taken off?.

7. Tiring • Any early pilot becomes tired when cross country • This is because once they are out on course they are over stressed thermalling • Solo Students need to PRACTICE thermalling • Give them a challenge “How many 1000ft climbs in given time” Say 2 Hours • Once practiced they will not be under so much stress once going x country.

8. Who Can Benefit? • Potential Guns. • Intermediate pilots • Those who want to soar locally • Never assume a local soarer does not have the potential to go X Country • All pilots who would later find they are frustrated being a glider pilot and leave the sport.

9. Lookout • When do we practice lookout • How expensive is it to train when flying? • Why not train on the ground • My Nullabour experience • Why not have a “lookout chair” • Does your club want a chair if so I will arrange.

10. Visualisation • Can be used for • Pre take off • Landing checks • Modified Circuits • Thermalling • All aspects of flying.

11. Lead and Follow • Can be dangerous! • Is highly beneficial • To a Pilot who has had enough of 2 seater • The Pilot has achieved the flight • Brings a close relationship with coach • Needs detailed preparation.

12. Lead and Follow Preparation • Needs detailed preparation • Radio needs to be used a lot • Take notes in flight to discuss later • Can be done with 2 seater • Is only beneficial if done with the right techniques.

13. Dangers. • Double blind.

14. Dangers • Cut Inside.

15. Dangers • Approaching Thermal.

16. Dangers • Keep at the same height as the student This is safer.

17. Theory • To allow the student to see how it is done • Perform the task in a single seater, although there is noting stopping a twin leading or following • Student to see how to fly in pairs.

18. Key Skills • Lookout • Keep reasonable radio communication • Joining up, the best is for the coach to launch first then join the student • Where required the students job is to follow and see what is being done, not try to show the coach how to fly • Pair thermalling • Having their own cut off height and sticking to it.

19. Coaches No 1 Requirement • The coach must stay at the at the same height as the student, this reduces anxiety and prevents the possibility of midair • If the Coach is at an altitude other than that of the student they will be looking up at the coach and thus not see other aircraft at their height.

20. Pre Flight Check Getting Together • Brief on who pays for the coaches flight • Agree on a coaching frequency usually 122.5 or 122.9 • If there are 2 students agree which replies to coach first.

21. Pre Flight Check • The coach will launch first • Once the student is established in a thermal the coach will come down and thermal up • If there is a second student once the second student has launched and become established in a thermal the coach will come down leaving the first student to stay put even if the thermal runs out, and wait for the coach to come up • If he does not then don’t waste your time with them • Once all are together and above CTAF the coach will say “Change frequency to channel 9” on the assumption that this is the agreed channel • The students will once changed channel say “GRB on Channel” where that is the glider call sign.

22. Pre Flight Check • When leaving the thermal the coach will say on the last turn “Leaving at 80 knots” • Student will say “Following” • The coach will always come down to the level of the student, this is vital for both moral and safety. Do not leave students below you looking up at you • Do not cut inside other pilots.

23. Method of ThinkingHoward Gardner • Linguistic • Logical / Mathematical • Musical • Visual / Spatial • Bodily / Kinesthetic • Intrapersonal • Interpersonal • Naturalist .

24. Linguistic • Talking • DVD • Books and written information/ notes • Theory based • Power point presentation (predominant text).

25. Logical / Mathematical • Mathematical and Graphs.

26. Musical • Link theory to music • Theory put into rhyme and rhythm.

27. Visual / Spatial • Images • Photos • Graphs • Videos.

28. Bodily / Kinesthetic • Action and demonstration.

29. Intrapersonal • Inward thinking.

30. Interpersonal • Socialising with other people.

31. Naturalist • Has an empathy with the environment • Sensitive to beliefs.

32. Let’s look at where we fit in.

33. So How do we teach Glider Pilots? • Linguistic • Logical / Mathematical • Musical • Visual / Spatial • Bodily / Kinesthetic • Intrapersonal • Interpersonal • Naturalist.

34. Linguistic • Put in touch with GFA Books • Guide to web sites GFA and • www.James Cooper.com.au • Rechman and Ecky.

35. Logical / Mathematical • Flight analysis and statistics • Drawings • Scientific approach like “lift & drag” • Communication White Board • Mathematical and Polar Curves.

36. Musical • Emphasis on flight noises • Hear the thermal core • Tune aircraft attitude to achieve a certain “sound”.

37. Visual / Spatial • Observations in flight (visual) • Straw • Lead and follow • Photos of Clouds • White Board.

38. Bodily / Kinesthetic • Action and demonstration • Air time • Exercise in the air • Feel the lift • Kinesthetic observations (feel of stick, air etc.).

39. Intrapersonal • Diary based analysis (Blue Book) • One on one coaching • Flight analysis • Homework exercises.

40. Interpersonal • Open questions • Group learning, communicate as part of the group • Team training • Make time to talk available • Verbal communication • Interactive style • Use humor, but make a firm stop to it (danger-/ attention-zone on the other side of the jokes).

41. Naturalist • At harmony with elements • Aim to point out the clues given by nature (like trigger points on the ground, cloud shapes, cloud forming, etc.) • Coach in an outside environment rather than inside.

42. Train pilots for what they will do • Don’t let Pilots teach themselves the more risky aspects of flying. • Low level thermlling • Low level finishes.

43. Let students do what they will do. • Low level finish practice for comps • Don’t turn back on the finish line • Low thermalling but not in circuit • But within their abilities, or what they will do anyway.

44. Perhaps the most important thing you can do • Set an example • Fly round the clubs • Do big tasks • They will copy you!.