Glider flight instructors provide both explicit and implicit training to trainees at their club or commercial Fixed Base Operator (FBO). Explicit training is when the CFI-G demonstrates a skill or evaluates the pilot's actions and decision-making skills. Examples include setting pitch attitude to fly the proper speed, making coordinated turns, determining the proper approach speed for current conditions, or executing a safe landing after reaching your hard deck altitude. Implicit training is when the CFI-G tells pilots one thing but does something quite different. Examples include training students to roll out and stop on the runway centerline but then turning off the runway at high speed when landing your own glider, or posting a flight on OLC showing you thermalled below your personal hard deck.
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