Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
On the instructor's side, every student can present new ways of getting the airplane bent or worse. It takes a while to learn what a student can be trusted to do reasonably and where extra vigilance is needed.
An unintended (or not!) consequence of that is that the student pays more than he/she needs to to get to FHT. Six minutes in a trip having the instructor 'learn what a student can do', it a 10% tax on his/her learning. Lucky flying training isn't costly. Oh, wait...
CG