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Title: Complaints??? Post by: Lrn2Fly on December 07, 2004, 03:22:49 pm If you had to make a list of everything you think your Instructor(s) could have done better as you have progressed through youir certificates and ratings, where would you start?
Probably a little late for us to do anything about it now, but we can talk about it as a forum. Title: Complaints??? Post by: Nick on December 09, 2004, 02:39:24 pm Having flown with about 6 different intructors during my private and commercial, I'm not sure if i could find too much fault and the different ways of teaching and flying. I know that each intructor i flew with was very accomidating to how i was flying and instead of teaching one way and one way only they should me more of how to better what i was doing and gave me hints and tips towards bettering me as a pilot, Anways, with my two cents from the last post and this little rant that equals about 5 cents and now im broke :D hehe
Nick Title: Complaints??? Post by: Gary on December 12, 2004, 09:20:18 am Well out of all the instructors I have had 2 were good and 3 were not. The common trait of the good ones was that they conveyed the fact that they cared and loved teaching. They may not have been great teachers but they CARED.
I can recall one instructor who yelled at me (all I did was verify with him that we were cleared to cross an active runway)...we flew one more time after that...and before we flew that time he offerred to sign me off for the instrument because I told him not to yell at me. Another got mad when I could not get it right...we flew no more times after that. It appears that much of the battle is making the customer think you care...really care. Most customers will give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to teaching skills...but if we don't actually care...they figure that out. I even had an instructor for my commercial tell me he could not wait to stop teaching... :mad: Title: Re: Complaints??? Post by: Russell B. Turner on December 02, 2006, 10:20:54 am Wouldn't it be more productive to entertain thoughts about how we could have been better students rather than concentrating on the faults present in our instructors? Many instructors, sad to say, are very low time pilots themselves and they are learning as much from the student as the student is learning from them. Many errors in instruction come from the fact that the instructor is teaching in the way that he or she was taught, good or bad. Most young instructors do not see instruction as a career goal although it can be very satisfying to see a student surpass you in many ways over the years.
A good motto for this subject is "Don't fix the blame, fix the problem." |