Consolidation and knowledge test readiness

What this lesson is for: closing phase 2, and finding out honestly whether you are ready to be recommended for the flight instructor airplane knowledge test.

Not a cram session. If you arrive needing to be taught Area II content, the right response is to say so rather than to compress sixteen lessons into an hour.

Read:

• FAA-S-ACS-25, Areas of Operation II and III, in one sitting. You have read them individually. Read them together.
• policy/KNOWLEDGE-TESTS.md.
• Your own Session Transcripts from lessons 8 to 22.

Deliverable: For each technical subject lesson in phase 2, one sentence on the single thing you would do differently if you taught it again. Skip any lesson where the honest answer is nothing, and say which ones you skipped and why.

1. Areas II and III in one pass, as connected material.
2. The flight instructor airplane knowledge test: scope, when to take it, how long it stays valid.
3. The readiness check.
4. A third regulation-or-policy sort.
5. You teach a task assigned at the start of the lesson, with no preparation time.
6. What phase 3 is, and what changes.
7. Your own coverage so far, on the matrix.

1. You teach an Area II or III task assigned at the start of the lesson, without preparation time, to standards/CRITIQUE-STANDARD.md.
2. You connect two technical subjects, explaining how one changes how you would teach the other.
3. You sort the third regulation-or-policy list correctly, or look up what you do not know.
4. You complete the readiness check, with the result recorded, named, and dated.
5. You state when your knowledge test result would expire relative to a planned practical test date.
6. You deliver a self-critique before hearing your instructor's.

Standard 4 is completed, not passed. "Not ready" is a valid result and satisfies it.

You start lesson 25 anyway. No proficiency gate, same as lesson 7.

What it does is trigger the visibility rule in policy/REMEDIATION-VISIBILITY.md, so the extra work shows up as extra work. What it protects you from is paying for a test you are not ready for and carrying deficiency codes into your checkride preparation.

Worth reading before you get there, because most candidates expect the wrong thing.

Phase 3 is not more flying. Phase 3 is flying and talking at the same time, being assessed on both. Every lesson runs the same four-part cycle: brief, demonstrate, talk through, critique and debrief. The preflight ground lesson on the maneuver is graded, not a warm-up.

Four of the phase 3 lessons are recorded in the cockpit: lessons 25, 26, 33, and 38. You will watch yourself teach. Most people find the first one uncomfortable and useful in roughly equal measure.

Lesson 26 is the one to know about in advance. It isolates talking while flying, and the failure it is built around is going silent exactly when the workload rises, which you will not notice yourself doing.

• Having learned the technical subjects for the test rather than for teaching. The unprepared assigned task finds this out quickly.
• Treating the readiness check as a box to tick.
• Assuming "not ready" stops you. It does not.
• Getting the third sort wrong the same way as the first two, which means the habit did not form.
• Expecting phase 3 to be more of the same. It is a genuine step up.

Not applicable. Ground lesson. Every remaining lesson except 31 flies.

This lesson has no Video Slots.