Originally Posted by
RichardJones
Interesting posts.
They help illustrate the difference between military and civilian flying training. The military avoided me, with ease When one leaves school at 15 with nothing hardly surprising.
The moron who did all the yelling, would be drummed out of a civilian flying school so fast, their head would spin.
Why? Because no person of sound mind, would want to fly with him. That type of individual is not an instructor. A destroyer would be a better description.
Personally I would have told them to "stick it... "
There is a lot of psychology involved in instructing, CRM and Captaincy. You won't get the best performance out of anyone behaving like that. You wont get much respect either.
Best is the silent method. Demonstrate, too others the way you would like it done and how to do it. Aim to make the demonstration, awe inspiring! For the right reasons.
Actions speak louder than words.
Bearing in mind, "it's a poor student, that cant better the instructor" at a later stage.
The moron who did all the yelling, would be drummed out of a civilian flying school so fast, their head would spin. I doubt that would happen unless the student put in a personal complaint.to the CFI. That that would rarely happen. The student would either assume all instructors were are like that and grit his teeth and take it, or simply walk away and find another flying school.
I am reminded of a story one of my students told me about an instructor he once had. My student was a jovial security guard who had arrived in Australia from Vietnam as a young boy having escaped from North Vietnamese soldiers after the fall of Vietnam. Along with his family they drifted by boat and were robbed by pirates until they finished up in Singapore and thence to Australia. With his money as a security guard he decided he would learn to fly, then do an instructors course and then teach some Vietnamese he knew from his security guard jobs to learn to fly. I did a few dual flights with him and found him keen and a pleasure to fly with.
He told me of flying with an instructor on his first dual cross country flight in a Cessna 172. There was a large cloud mid way through the flight and he was unsure how to avoid it. His instructor started to swear at him calling him an idiot. The language of his instructor was so insulting that (in his own words) "I nearly had to put him to sleep" and he drew a karate cut gesture. There was a happy ending though. Years later he became CFI of a flying school in Fiji and that led to an airline job in Australia