This particular CFI is new, just got his license in april. Other guy went to fly planes to the grand canyon, or whatever.
I believe he is just scared, since he is sitting there wondering if the student if going to kill him or not. He is also learning how to teach, not an easy thing, and as I've said in past posts, teaching should be smooth, with smooth instructions, and this comes with experience and confidence.
I move the controls slowly, that is my nature. This drives him crazy since if we are in pattern and the speed or height drops a bit, he screams to add power and I slowly push the throttle in to pick things up. The remos is sensative.
After today's fiasco he told me I'm improving. I said "well, one doesn't get worse, one can only improve"
He astonished me. He said that some of his students are actually getting worse. Wow! A revalation. I told him that if they are geting worse, then it means they are being confused, frustrated, and fatigued. He only started teaching in april. Oy vey!!!!!!
But I don't give up. I told him that we are going to speak about how we are going to run our pattern. I said first we get up to pattern height, 1000 agl parallel to runway, we cut power to 4000 rpm, finally figured that out on trial and error, then abreat numbers we cut power to about 3000 rpm, we hold altitude until we can safely put in first level of flaps, then we proceed to nose down and make our leg, more flaps, and final where we eyeball the runway and make adjustments according to our distance, speed and height.
I need a plan, since he didn't have any, so I made my own. I promised to keep the speed over 60, and I can't hold an exact 65, and it may even go to 70.
Id' love to meet his other students for a pow wow.
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Hmm,maybe I'll get some popcorn and rent the birds by hitchcock tonight.
