Originally Posted by
70 Mustang
I started training last year to be a flight instructor in the UK after a flying career that started in '85 as a flight instructor in the USA. It was going okay until we got to the lesson planning before an inflight session for instructing turns. I couldn't believe what i saw and heard! How the event was dissected like it was brain surgery or rocket science. The entry into the turn, the maintaining of the turn, the exit from the turn, with exchange of controls flip flopping between each section. What a load of .....! Put me right off of the entire idea of getting a UK flight instructor licence.
The ability to break the lesson down into its constituent parts and bring it back together so that the student understands it and flies it accurately 😉