Comments on: Overcoming Flight Training Pitfalls http://www.m0a.com/overcoming-flight-training-pitfalls/ Because A Good Pilot Is Always Learning Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:24:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keith http://www.m0a.com/overcoming-flight-training-pitfalls/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Keith Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:19:41 +0000 http://www.m0a.com/?p=828#comment-1956 I'm sorry to hear how you were treated at the flight school when you landed on the grass. Sounds to me like you were getting ahead of the training curriculum; soft-field landing is usually _after_ you start soloing. I'm getting off track here, I hope you left that flight school after the comment by the flight school owner. Here's one thing that I learned during my flight training how to get out of a training pitfall: ask your instructor to send you to another instructor to help you with a skill you're having a hard time with. This worked for me trying to learn short and soft field landings. Sometimes you simply have to hear the same thing your instructor is trying to tell you from someone else I’m sorry to hear how you were treated at the flight school when you landed on the grass. Sounds to me like you were getting ahead of the training curriculum; soft-field landing is usually _after_ you start soloing. I’m getting off track here, I hope you left that flight school after the comment by the flight school owner.

Here’s one thing that I learned during my flight training how to get out of a training pitfall: ask your instructor to send you to another instructor to help you with a skill you’re having a hard time with. This worked for me trying to learn short and soft field landings. Sometimes you simply have to hear the same thing your instructor is trying to tell you from someone else

]]> By: PlasticPilot http://www.m0a.com/overcoming-flight-training-pitfalls/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 PlasticPilot Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:23:47 +0000 http://www.m0a.com/?p=828#comment-1909 Hi Jason, great post, thank you for sharing what was probably a hard time for you. I flew with 16 different instructors (different schools, different places, different ratings...). Working with my primary flight Instructor was really a pleasure. Some others were less pleasant to work with, but only one behaved in an unprofessional way. He was what I call a "jump-in / jump-out" instructor. Almost no time for briefing, and what he called debriefing took place between landing an reaching the parking position. It is important to have a good match between student pilot and flight instructor. Not all pairs can do well, and it does not mean the student or the instructor is bad. If you don't feel good with your instructor, try another one. No shame in that. Hi Jason,

great post, thank you for sharing what was probably a hard time for you. I flew with 16 different instructors (different schools, different places, different ratings…). Working with my primary flight Instructor was really a pleasure. Some others were less pleasant to work with, but only one behaved in an unprofessional way. He was what I call a “jump-in / jump-out” instructor. Almost no time for briefing, and what he called debriefing took place between landing an reaching the parking position.

It is important to have a good match between student pilot and flight instructor. Not all pairs can do well, and it does not mean the student or the instructor is bad. If you don’t feel good with your instructor, try another one. No shame in that.

]]>