Originally Posted by
bitbarrel
I wonder if "being behind the aircraft" is a common misidentification of the instructor of what the actual problem is. Ideas?
I would say that it's not so much a misidentification as the identification of a symptom instead of a problem. If you're 'behind the aircraft', you're not looking/thinking/acting so that you're fully aware of the next steps to take or the next phase of the flight. The underlying problems that can cause this are many and you could argue that having achieved the position you were in in that flight crew, the instructor deemed you capable of analysing the reason for being behind the aircraft and acting accordingly by yourself. That doesn't mean that said instructor couldn't have done more to delve into the issue, but I wasn't there, so cannot comment on that.