AIRAF EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
✔✔What are the five basic procedures of the demonstration-performance method -
✔✔1. Explanation
2. demonstration
3. Student performance
4. Instructor Supervision
5. Evaluation
✔✔What are the qualities of a good question? - ✔✔1. easy to understand
2. common words
3. thought provoking
4. based on the major teaching points of the lesson
✔✔What is the procedure in asking a question? - ✔✔1. ask the question
2. pause
3. name the student
4. listen to the answer
5. confirm the correct response
✔✔How to handle student answers - ✔✔1. discourage group answers
2. do not repeat the answer
3. give credit for good answers
✔✔How to handle student questions - ✔✔1. always encourage students at ANY time to
ask questions
2. pass question to other students
3. reject unrelated questions
4. do not bluff
5. ensure everyone hears you
✔✔What is the Demonstration-Performance Method? - ✔✔1. Explanation
2. Demonstration
3. Student Practice
4. Instructor Supervision
5. Evaluation
*starts in the previous lesson when familiarization is given to the student
✔✔When do you usually start seeing a plateau? - ✔✔After the basics have been
learned
✔✔How do reversals occur? - ✔✔performance usually deteriorates with practice due to:
- faulty habits
, - basic elements not understood or too much emphasis on an element
✔✔How do you help a student when they are facing reversal? - ✔✔identify the root
cause and correct it before moving on
✔✔What are the 3 different types of emotions? - ✔✔1. Mild Emotion: affects motivation
2. Strong Emotion: causes most of our emotional problems in flight training
- prolonged tension and creates a learning problem
3. Disruptive Emotion: severe, deep rooted
- disruptive to clear thinking
✔✔What are the 5 different types of emotional escape mechanisms? - ✔✔1. Projection
2. Rationalization
3. Resignation
4. Flight
5. Aggression
✔✔Projection - ✔✔transferring blame to someone or something else
✔✔Rationalization - ✔✔finding a believable excuse- justifying unjustifiable behaviour
✔✔Resignation` - ✔✔give up
✔✔Flight - ✔✔physically or mentally removing oneself from the tension producing
situation
✔✔Aggresion - ✔✔taking one's tension out on someone else by being argumentative
✔✔How to teach someone who is NERVOUS OR UNDERCONFIDENT - ✔✔- repeating
fundamentals and ensure mastery
- patience
- receives deserved praise
- avoid harsh rebukes
- avoid high G and extreme aircraft maneuvers
✔✔How to teach someone who is OVERCONFIDENT OR CONCEITED - ✔✔- ensure
they have the ability to match the confidence
- set more difficult tasks with greater accuracy
- discourage any signs of familiarity
✔✔how to teach someone who is FORGETFUL OF INSTRUCTION - ✔✔- requires a lot
of patience
- need more review than average
ANSWERS
✔✔What are the five basic procedures of the demonstration-performance method -
✔✔1. Explanation
2. demonstration
3. Student performance
4. Instructor Supervision
5. Evaluation
✔✔What are the qualities of a good question? - ✔✔1. easy to understand
2. common words
3. thought provoking
4. based on the major teaching points of the lesson
✔✔What is the procedure in asking a question? - ✔✔1. ask the question
2. pause
3. name the student
4. listen to the answer
5. confirm the correct response
✔✔How to handle student answers - ✔✔1. discourage group answers
2. do not repeat the answer
3. give credit for good answers
✔✔How to handle student questions - ✔✔1. always encourage students at ANY time to
ask questions
2. pass question to other students
3. reject unrelated questions
4. do not bluff
5. ensure everyone hears you
✔✔What is the Demonstration-Performance Method? - ✔✔1. Explanation
2. Demonstration
3. Student Practice
4. Instructor Supervision
5. Evaluation
*starts in the previous lesson when familiarization is given to the student
✔✔When do you usually start seeing a plateau? - ✔✔After the basics have been
learned
✔✔How do reversals occur? - ✔✔performance usually deteriorates with practice due to:
- faulty habits
, - basic elements not understood or too much emphasis on an element
✔✔How do you help a student when they are facing reversal? - ✔✔identify the root
cause and correct it before moving on
✔✔What are the 3 different types of emotions? - ✔✔1. Mild Emotion: affects motivation
2. Strong Emotion: causes most of our emotional problems in flight training
- prolonged tension and creates a learning problem
3. Disruptive Emotion: severe, deep rooted
- disruptive to clear thinking
✔✔What are the 5 different types of emotional escape mechanisms? - ✔✔1. Projection
2. Rationalization
3. Resignation
4. Flight
5. Aggression
✔✔Projection - ✔✔transferring blame to someone or something else
✔✔Rationalization - ✔✔finding a believable excuse- justifying unjustifiable behaviour
✔✔Resignation` - ✔✔give up
✔✔Flight - ✔✔physically or mentally removing oneself from the tension producing
situation
✔✔Aggresion - ✔✔taking one's tension out on someone else by being argumentative
✔✔How to teach someone who is NERVOUS OR UNDERCONFIDENT - ✔✔- repeating
fundamentals and ensure mastery
- patience
- receives deserved praise
- avoid harsh rebukes
- avoid high G and extreme aircraft maneuvers
✔✔How to teach someone who is OVERCONFIDENT OR CONCEITED - ✔✔- ensure
they have the ability to match the confidence
- set more difficult tasks with greater accuracy
- discourage any signs of familiarity
✔✔how to teach someone who is FORGETFUL OF INSTRUCTION - ✔✔- requires a lot
of patience
- need more review than average
