Originally Posted by
43Inches
If an instructor is fixed to one set of techniques and not flexible, probably time to find another instructor.
I've come across a few of these fixed technique instructors that then struggle to teach in another aircraft type, because the technique they learned was a shortcut for their type, not generic to aviation.
100%. It can be dangerous also.
I know instructors are always on about their job entailing "teaching people who are trying to kill them", but the same holds true for instructors who, for example, inadvertently or otherwise get the numbers mixed up on the aircraft they're in and tell the student his/her speeds are wrong on short final..