Aviation Instructor's Handbook

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Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Flight Standards Service, 1999
AC oo-2, Advisory Circular Checklist, transmits the current status of FAA advisory circulars and other flight information and publications." Available online at http://www.faa.gov/abc/ac-chklst/actoc.htm.
 

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Page 9-13 - Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command. (a) The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft.
Page 1-17 - The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all. Theory Y 1. The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest.
Page 1-17 - The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility. 5. The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.
Page 9-14 - I can do it -I'll show them." Pilots with this type of attitude will try to prove themselves by taking risks in order to impress others. While this pattern is thought to be a male characteristic, women are equally susceptible. Pilots who think, "What's the use?
Page 1-17 - The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population. Under the conditions of modern industrial life, the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partially utilized [McGregor, 1960: 47-48].
Page 9-14 - Do it quickly." 3. Invulnerability: "It won't happen to me.' 4. Macho: "I can do it." 5. Resignation: "What's the use?" This attitude is found in people who do not like anyone telling them what to do. In a sense, they are saying, "No one can tell me what to do." They may be resentful of having someone tell them what to do, or may regard rules, regulations, and procedures as silly or unnecessary. However, it is always your prerogative to question authority if you feel it is in error. This is the attitude...
Page 6-6 - The traditional definition of validity as "the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure...

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