Originally Posted by
Innominate
I've never been shouted at, but there was an instructor who clearly was able to think much faster than I could - he gave an almost constant stream of patter and before I'd responded to one instruction he would have given at least one further instruction and be starting on a third. In the end my wife and I decided that if he was the Duty Instructor we'd go shopping instead
Sounds a lot like an instructor I flew with; if you weren't already overloaded by the flying, the constant stream of instruction, advice, explanations and the odd anecdote would do the trick. Things improved considerably when I discovered he responded to the command "Shut Up!" without taking any offence; thereafter I flew with him quite frequently and learned a lot.