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One of the more challenging aspects of being a flight instructor is that sometimes you forget what it is like to be a learner.
If it’s been a few years since you added a new certificate or rating, it can be a challenge to put yourself in the learner’s mindset—especially when working with ab initio candidates. They don’t know what they don’t know, or worse yet, they may have absorbed information from social media and Hollywood television shows and movies that is very off base.
