12.17 Fair and Consistent Standards
The student pilot accepts the flight instructor as a competent qualified teacher and expert pilot. Attempting to hide inadequacy behind a smoke screen of unrelated instruction will make it impossible to command the respect and attention of the student; the professional flight instructor should be respectful, straightforward, accepting, open-minded, trustworthy and honest.
In addition, instruction that emphasizes safety will be negated if the instructor appears to ignore his own instruction, for example taxiing quickly, or descending below minimum altitudes.
The same applies to the insistence on precision, accuracy and smoothness of handling. The professional instructor is constantly under scrutiny and is expected to excel in aircraft handling.
How role-modelling lands across the cluster
The fair-and-consistent-standards principle is the personal-conduct anchor for several adjacent duty areas:
- The CRM and TEM training the cluster equips the instructor to deliver depends on the instructor modelling those same techniques, not just teaching them.
- The handling standards reinforced by the 12.11 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and the 12.9 Training Manuals are reinforced or undermined by the instructor's own demonstrated handling.
- The Code of Conduct rules on safety adherence ("All safety rules shall be adhered to at all times") on the 12.3 Training Code of Conduct become operationally meaningful when modelled rather than recited.
Connections
- 12.18 Impartiality / Professionalism. Extends the role-modelling discipline into the broader professional-conduct frame.
- 12.19 Safety and Accident Prevention. The safety-modelling obligation this section anchors.
- 12.3 Training Code of Conduct. The safety-rules adherence the modelling obligation makes operational.
- 12.2 Instructor Competencies. Unit 4 Element A item a (demonstrates and role models exemplary behaviour) is the framework anchor.