Balloon Flight Instructor training

Overview

Balloon Flight Instructor course overview

 The aim of the Flight Instructor (Balloon) training course is to provide you with necessary theoretical knowledge instruction as well as the actual flight training to develop your instructor competences up to the level of providing the Balloon Pilot Licence training in Hot-Air Balloon class to other candidates. The course takes approximately 1 week of the training time.

The FI(B) training course is structured to develop your safety awareness by teaching the knowledge, skills and attitudes in at least following:

• refresh your technical knowledge ;
• train you to be able to teach:
  • the ground subjects and air exercises; and
  • how to access all related sources of information
• ensure that your flying is of a sufficiently high standard;
• teach you the principles of basic instruction and how to apply them at all training levels. 

The Balloon Flight Instructor training course consists of following parts:

• Part 1: 25 hours of Teaching and learning iaw AMC1 BFCL.325;
• Part 2: 3 hours of Flight Instruction in Hot-air class Balloon;

The FI(B) training is followed by the FI(B) assessment of competence with EASA Balloon Flight Examiner. The validity of the Balloon Flight Instructor is 5 years.

Teach & Learn

 The Teaching and Learning module of the FI(B) training is called as Part 1  and it is required by AMC1 BFCL.325. This module is about the Training philosophy and Fundamentals of instruction.  The module consists of 25 hours of groundschool and covers following topics:

• The learning and teaching process
• Techniques of applied instruction and programme development
• Training philosophies and Student evaluation and testing
• Human performance and limitations relevant to flight instruction

Flying

You will complete flight training in order to practise the principles of basic instruction towards the Balloon Pilot Licence level. Flying part is going to be your real touch with the BPL trainee. There will be either role-play instruction with FI(B) instructor or directly with the less experienced Balloon Pilot. The airmanship is a vital ingredient of all flight operations. Therefore, in the air exercises, the relevant aspects of airmanship is something that an instructor of ProfiPilot Training will be emphasizing many times during each flight. You will also learn how to identify common errors and how to correct them properly.