Flight Instructor Program · sources
The language of North Aero's initial flight instructor program. This glossary exists because several words in CFI_User_Stories.md carried two meanings at once, and Epic 12 made the ambiguity expensive: the same word was being used for a thing that can be logged and a thing that cannot.
## People
CFI Candidate: A pilot enrolled in North Aero's initial flight instructor program. Always the subject of a user story unless stated otherwise. Avoid: student, trainee, CFI student
Student: A North Aero flight student who is not a CFI Candidate. Never used for the CFI Candidate themselves, however natural that reads. Avoid: client, learner
Supervising Instructor: The certificated flight instructor from the Delivery Pool who is conducting a CFI Candidate's training. The authorized instructor of record for anything logged. Avoid: mentor CFI, primary instructor
Simulated Student: The Supervising Instructor while role playing a Student so that the CFI Candidate has someone to teach. The same human as the Supervising Instructor, in a different role, in the same room. The distinction matters because their in-character speech is not instruction and must not be credited as the Candidate's teaching. Avoid: pretend student, mock student, role player
Delivery Pool: The set of instructors qualified under US-11.1 to deliver this program.
## Training events
Taught Ground Lesson: A ground lesson the CFI Candidate delivers to a Simulated Student while the Supervising Instructor is present. The unit that Epic 12 records, transcribes, and assesses. Avoid: ground lesson, teaching session
Ground Training Received: Training, other than flight training, that the CFI Candidate receives from an authorized instructor, in the sense ยง61.1(b) uses the phrase. A Taught Ground Lesson is the medium through which it happens; the teaching itself is not Ground Training Received, because teaching is given rather than received. Avoid: ground time, ground instruction
## Records
Tracker Status: The CFI Candidate's state on a lesson, drawn from the fixed vocabulary NOT LOGGED, IN PROGRESS, NEEDS WORK, PROFICIENT. Internal to North Aero and carries no regulatory weight. Avoid: logged, complete, signed off
Logbook Entry: An endorsed record of Ground Training Received or flight training, made under the current regulation and capable of supporting eligibility for a certificate. Distinct from Tracker Status, and the two may legitimately disagree. Avoid: log, record, credit
## Artifacts
Session Recording: The audio and video capture of a Taught Ground Lesson.
Session Transcript: The verbatim, timestamped, speaker-labeled text of a Session Recording. The only permitted input to Coverage, because it is the only artifact that records what was actually said. Avoid: transcription, notes
Session Notes: Gemini's generated summary of a Session Recording. A human convenience for the CFI Candidate and Supervising Instructor. Never an input to Coverage, because it is an interpretation and has already been observed to misattribute who was teaching. Avoid: notes, summary, minutes
## Assessment
Coverage: Which ACS areas and tasks a Taught Ground Lesson demonstrably addressed. A statement about topics raised, never about how well they were taught. Avoid: completion, mastery, progress
Proficiency: The Supervising Instructor's judgment of how well the CFI Candidate performed. The only basis for advancing Tracker Status. Never derived from Coverage.
Clip: A recorded segment of a Student flying a maneuver, selected by Erick for a specific lesson to show a specific thing, and published to Vimeo. Selection is an editorial act, not a harvest: footage becomes a Clip only by being chosen. Avoid: video, footage, example
Exemplar Clip: The single Clip in a lesson showing the maneuver flown correctly. Exactly one per lesson.
Error Clip: A Clip in a lesson showing the maneuver flown incorrectly, or showing a common error. One or more per lesson.
Video Slot: A named placeholder in a lesson plan where a Clip will be linked. Lets a lesson be written, reviewed, and delivered before its Clip exists, so video production never gates curriculum.
Review Video: Raw footage of a Student's flight, retained only long enough to be considered for promotion into a Clip. Not a record, not tracked, and deleted by default. Avoid: student video, recording
Promotion: Erick's editorial decision to turn a Review Video into a Clip. The only thing that makes footage survive, and the only thing that makes it a school asset.
Promotion Window: The 30 days a Review Video survives while awaiting Promotion. After it, deletion.
Instructor Debrief: The instructor's assessment of a flight, delivered to the pilot who flew it and captured so that it can be time-linked to the Session Recording of that flight. The source of both the annotations that categorize a Clip and the Reference Critique attached to it. Avoid: postflight, critique, review
Reference Critique: The written statement of what errors a Clip contains, derived from the Instructor Debrief of that flight, held so that a CFI Candidate's critique can be compared against a stated standard rather than a recollection. Avoid: answer key, model answer
