Examiner Training and Requalification

During August and September over two hundred and fifty of our Wings Examiners completed the airspace and rules training and exam required by CAA.

Each examiner watched a short video explaining the reasons for the new program, what’s expected of them as examiners, how to conduct the oral quiz and flight check parts of the requalification program.  Once they had watched the video they completed the same Airspace and Rules Quiz that all members will need to do before their own requalification starting next year.

To assist Examiners, MFNZ has written an Examiners handbook with guidelines on the Wings Renewal process.
To download the handbook see the links below

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Examiner renewal training

If you still need to complete the Exaimner training course, complete the following actions
  1.  Please watch the video at the following link;
    Click here to watch training video
    Note that there is a keyword in the video that will be required to start the next step.
  2. After watching the video you will need to pass the Examiner – MFNZ Wings – Airspace and Rules Refresher Training exam.

The reference material required to find all the answers is below, please don’t guess the answers – find and read the answers, it will aid wider learning.
MFNZ Airspace and Rules reference material

The exam is at this link ;
Click to run the MFNZ Examiner Refresher training

You must answer the first question correctly.  The Pass mark on the following 20 questions is 80% (16/20).
You can repeat the exam to achieve a Pass.
Once successfully completed you will be certified by Model Flying NZ as an Examiner for the Wings renewal process and available to do testing at any NZ club which you are familiar with.

Examiner Discretion

Here is guidance for examiners when testing people they know, don’t know or have doubts about;

As an examiner, it is expected that the majority of renewal candidates you are asked to check will be already familiar to you. It is likely you will have seen them operate on many occasions and will have already formed a mental impression of their ability. 

If that impression is a favourable one, then the test should only need  to comprise of the bare minimum requirements as follows:

  • Prepare the aircraft for flight
  • Start the aircraft safely -Taxi/launch the aircraft
  • Climb to a safe height and perform 1x left hand turn and 1x right hand turn -Land the aircraft and shut down.

If you have any doubts about the candidates ability to safely fly the aircraft then, entirely at your discretion, you can require the candidate to re-fly the test with an expanded list of manoeuvres or a more complex model relevant to the wings badges held.

If the candidate is not familiar to you, you must review the candidates list of wings qualifications and then select a model type and list of manoeuvres that will allow you to determine if the candidate is safe to fly.

Only one test is required irrespective of the various wings qualifications held by the candidate.

The absolute bottom line of this part of the Renewal test is for you to ascertain:-Is this person Safe to Fly? 

Use of Stabilisation in tests

Given the rapid growth of the implementation of stabilization technologies in the aircraft we are flying, the wings program has recently been updated to read;

It is acceptable to use an electronic stabilisation device if the aircraft has one fitted, however the electronic stabilisation must only act to dampen oscillation in the roll, pitch and yaw axis.

During testing, the electronic stabilisation must not take over control from the pilot or achieve automated flight.