Right-seat consolidation: traffic pattern, normal takeoff and landing

Right-seat handling becomes automatic rather than deliberate. The candidate leaves able to fly the pattern from the right seat without thinking about the seat.

Still no teaching. Narration starts at lesson 26. This lesson buys the spare capacity that narration will consume.

Ground 30 minutes, flight 90 minutes. Reconciles with the declared 0.5 ground and 1.5 dual. Debrief runs on shutdown inside the flight block.

Instructor: FAA-S-ACS-25 at the tasks above. The airplane. The lesson 10 debrief notes.

Candidate: headset, the flight manual for the airplane being flown.

Cockpit capture not required. Optional, and useful as a comparison against lesson 10.

1. Debrief lesson 10 properly before flying. Name the one thing to change today.
2. Fly from the left seat as safety pilot.
3. Aim for repetition, not variety. Eight to ten circuits beats four circuits plus airwork.
4. Introduce crosswind if conditions offer it. Do not manufacture it.
5. Do not ask for narration. Stop it if it starts.
6. Debrief on shutdown, self-critique first.

1. Fly the pattern from the right seat, repeatedly.
2. Apply the one change from the lesson 10 debrief.
3. Handle crosswind from the right seat if conditions offer it.
4. Self-critique first.

Identical wording in the study guide.

1. The candidate flies at least six normal takeoffs and landings from the right seat to private pilot standards.
2. The candidate demonstrates the specific change identified in the lesson 10 debrief.
3. The candidate flies the pattern to standard tolerances without prompting on altitude, spacing, or configuration point.
4. The candidate maintains centerline on takeoff roll without the drift seen at lesson 10.
5. The candidate delivers a self-critique before hearing the instructor's.

Falling short does not block lesson 14. No proficiency gate (Decision 9). It triggers the visibility rule in policy/REMEDIATION-VISIBILITY.md.

The instructor takes the airplane when:

• Deviation below 300 ft AGL on approach not corrected within two seconds.
• Drift toward the runway edge on takeoff roll not arrested immediately.
• Airspeed below 1.1 Vso on final without correction applied.
• Bank exceeding 45 degrees in the pattern.
• Attention inside the cockpit in the pattern while a traffic conflict develops.

Positive exchange of controls, both directions, every time.

Verbatim in the study guide.

Read:

• Your own lesson 10 debrief, and the one change it identified.
• FAA-H-8083-3C, the takeoffs and landings chapter, plus the October 2025 addendum.

Deliverable: One sentence, written: the single thing you are changing today, and how you will know at the end of the flight whether it worked.

Reuses VS-10-1 and VS-10-2 from lesson 10. Both currently empty.

This lesson is complete and deliverable whether or not its Video Slots are filled.

Progress here is measured against lesson 10, not against an absolute. A candidate who was well behind at lesson 10 and is now close is doing exactly what this lesson is for.

Tracker Status set by the instructor, named, dated.

• ✓Traces to a story. US-5.1, US-2.3
• ✓Carries ACS tasks and Part 61 references
• ✓Completion standards are observable behavior
• ✓Common errors listed
• ✓Intervention threshold stated explicitly
• ✓Student preparation named, in the student half
• ✓FAA references verified current, 2026-08-13
• ✓Passes the design system check
• ✓Appears in the program structure and coverage matrix, hours reconciling
• ✓Both halves exist
• ✓Video Slots named, and the lesson states it is deliverable with them empty
• ✓Vocabulary matches CONTEXT.md
• ✓No em dashes, no POH performance numbers, no pricing
• ✓Falling short does not block progression (Decision 9)