ORIGINAL: cfircav8r

The best way to teach is to have a lesson in mind before each flight. Start with a little theory, before the flight, that will pertain to your air work. How a plane turns, ie: some of the wings lift is used to turn the plane causing the need for increased up elevator to compensate...etc, before starting a flight of figure eights. If you use this method you will not drag them down with long hours of theory and they will get all the basics by the time they are ready to solo. Don't forget to occasionally revisit some of the more difficult areas, and It is also helpful to present different scenarios and ask what the correct fix would be to see if they understand the concepts.


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I would add stalls and unusual attitude recovery as somone pointed out earlier