Aviation Instructor's Handbook: FAA-H-8083-9A

by Federal Aviation Administration

The Aviation Instructor’s Handbook was developed by the FAA in order to help beginning ground instructors, flight instructors, and aviation maintenance instructors understand the basics of flight instruction. This handbook provides aviation instructors with up-to-date information on learning and teaching, and how to relate this information to the task of teaching aeronautical knowledge and skills to students. Experienced aviation instructors will also find the updated information useful for improving their effectiveness in training activities.

Genres: Aviation

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 1988

Reviews

[Scott Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everything you need to know to pass the FAA's Fundamentals of Instruction test. There's a lot to get your head around if this is your first introduction to teaching, but it's reasonably well-presented and discussed. Definitely not the last word on instructing aviation, but also definitely a good introduction.

[Austin Hill · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the content is pretty dry, it tells you all you need to know for the FOI. It doesn’t really go into any of the needed information about flight training or aircraft systems. It really is like the in-depth training for FOI written but almost nothing for the FIA. For that, check out the Flight Instructor’s Manual by Kershner.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it, listen to an audio book, read parts of it again, listen to the audio again, listen to seasoned instructors advice on podcasts or around the airport. Be patient with new students. Figure out their learning style and teach to that.

[Andris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this to study for my Fundamentals of Instructing FAA Knowledge Exam. There's lots of great information on teaching/psychology that was all new to me (as someone not in a teaching profession). The shortcomings of this tome is that there's so much information, that it's very dense and at times, dry. There's a lot of material covered. The challenge is remembering it all, since initially it's all rote memorization.

[Josh tully · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very informative for someone like me who is looking into a career in the aviation class. Although it is very dry and not exciting in the least I would still recommend this to someone who is exited about learning how to fly. at first it was very confusing but if you stick with it and realy want to learn how to fly that it slowly becomes easyer to read.

[Tasshin Fogleman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read most of this in the 1999 edition, but the latest version (that is freely available) is the 2008 version. Would be worth a re-read!