Originally Posted by
greybeard
No you are NOT the only one who has had or will have this situation.
As a wide body capt under training, was told that the questions I was occasionally asking "indicated a lack of knowledge". YOU THINK!!!!
As the apparent shortage of Instructors/Pilots gets to bite, many people who shouldn't do instructing will be in those positions, as they have in small numbers always been there.
Most good instructors are actally "born", some may be trained if they have the basic stuff, the rest actually struggle at the task with mixed results.
Some instructors can only teach by "checking" as they have a false sense of the standard, some who cannot reach that standard themselves, and provide only negative comments in the false premise that that will encourage the improvement in the student. The shouters and hitters, YES HITTERS, out there should be removed from the gene pool ASAP
Instructing is like building a brick wall, one "brick" at a time, fully supported by the prvious "brick" and always reviewed at the end of the lesson as to progress, skill development and future expectations in the process.
I have been privilaged to be an Instructor over many years in all classes of Aircraft, now mostly in the Simulator area and the situation you describe is not unique even in our so called "top of the pile", it has to be monitored and eliminated if at all possible by suitable supervision, sadly not always available
Change your Instructor at the very least, or the school if it is necessary and find someonewho will put enjoymentinto the learning process.
Cheers
Greybeard
I am bringing this back in 2023. I am currently experiencing dealing with an ACID TONGUE sim/line training captain who is EX-AIRFORCE training on a new type. He has nothing good to say to me and YELLS at everything instead of showing/explaining things. Guess he expects you to KNOW. Asking him a question leads to more YELLING!
ZERO CRM!
This does not work for me as it makes me extremely nervous and doubt everything I'm doing. He keeps demeaning me and my credentials. This really chips away at confidence levels.
It seems the company knows about them but does nothing. Sometimes these Dbags stand between you and unemployment and trying to keep up with them is exhausting as you have to suck it up.
Has anyone dealt with this at a company level?