# FI.I.F — Elements of Effective Teaching that Include Risk Management and Accident Prevention — Flight Instructor – Instrument Powered Lift ACS

> FI.I.F from FAA-S-ACS-28, including the official objective, references, notes, and 25 exact knowledge, risk-management, and skill descriptions.

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## Official Task context

- FAA document: Flight Instructor – Instrument Rating Powered-Lift Airman Certification Standards
- Identifier: FAA-S-ACS-28
- Published source date: November 2023
- Aircraft category: Powered Lift
- Certificate or rating: Flight Instructor – Instrument
- Area of Operation: Area of Operation I. Fundamentals of Instructing
- Task: Task F. Elements of Effective Teaching that Include Risk Management and Accident Prevention
- Task code prefix: FI.I.F
- Official references: FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-9, FAA-H-8083-25
- FAA source library: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs

## Official Task objective

To determine the applicant understands teaching practical risk management, can apply that knowledge, manage associated risks, demonstrate appropriate skills, and provide effective instruction.

## Knowledge elements

- **FI.I.F.K1** — Teaching risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.
- **FI.I.F.K2** — Teaching risk management tools, including:
- **FI.I.F.K2a** — a. Pilot/Aircraft/enVironment/External Pressures (PAVE) checklist
- **FI.I.F.K2b** — b. Flight Risk Assessment Tools (FRATs)
- **FI.I.F.K3** — When and how to introduce risk management.
- **FI.I.F.K4** — Risk management teaching techniques by phase of instruction.
- **FI.I.F.K5** — Managing risk during flight instruction, including:
- **FI.I.F.K5a** — a. Common flight instruction risks
- **FI.I.F.K5b** — b. Best practices
- **FI.I.F.K5c** — c. Special considerations while teaching takeoffs and landings
- **FI.I.F.K6** — Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) to include using Crew Resource Management (CRM) or SinglePilot Resource Management (SRM), as appropriate.

## Risk management elements

- **FI.I.F.R1** — Hazards associated with providing flight instruction.
- **FI.I.F.R2** — Obstacles to maintaining situational awareness during flight instruction.
- **FI.I.F.R3** — Recognizing and managing hazards arising from human behavior, including hazardous attitudes.

## Skills elements

- **FI.I.F.S1** — Use scenario-based training (SBT) to demonstrate, teach, and assess risk management and Aeronautical Decision-Making (ADM) skills in the context of a Task specified by the evaluator.
- **FI.I.F.S2** — Identify, assess, and mitigate risks commonly associated with flight instruction by maintaining:
- **FI.I.F.S2a** — a. Awareness and oversight of the learner’s actions, with timely and appropriate supervision, intervention, or mitigation as needed
- **FI.I.F.S2b** — b. Awareness of the learner’s cognitive/physiological state, with timely action to mitigate anxiety, fatigue, or other obstruction to learning
- **FI.I.F.S2c** — c. Overall situational awareness of the aircraft’s dynamic state, its position in space, and vigilance for unexpected events or changing circumstances that occur in the environment
- **FI.I.F.S3** — Model and teach safety practices, including maintaining:
- **FI.I.F.S3a** — a. Collision avoidance while simultaneously providing instruction
- **FI.I.F.S3b** — b. Avoidance of unnecessary distractions
- **FI.I.F.S3c** — c. Coordinated flight
- **FI.I.F.S3d** — d. Awareness of who is manipulating controls through positive exchange of flight controls
- **FI.I.F.S3e** — e. Continuous awareness of the aircraft’s dynamic state and position in the NAS

## Difficulty methodology

Difficulty calibration is ongoing for this Task. Observed difficulty is a privacy-thresholded check-ride.ai mock-oral practice proxy, not an FAA practical-test pass or fail rate. Underlying sample sizes and the private reporting threshold are not published.

## Use in practice

A mock examiner can ask a pilot to explain the published elements, apply them to the configured aircraft and airport context, identify risks, and defend a decision. Practice prompts are not represented as actual FAA examiner scripts or predictions of the questions a candidate will receive.