Foxmouth
I think you've not got my point.
Many newish PPL's are more than competant but, exceptionally good instructors, average instructors and frankly appalling instructors all induce a similar strange reaction in some pilots.
If you have never felt this then you are either -
a) an instructor or
b) far better than the average type PPL
the reaction is a combination of clumsiness, gaucheness, forgertfulness and general lack of slickness.
This reaction can affect even lofty high time pompous pilots like me. The wierd thing is; put them with someone who doesn't purport to have some measure of God like authority and they settle down and fly naturally. The ones that don't show their short comings and can be referred back to the school.
Strangely, some PPL's with a tad of experience, have been found to have more competance than Instructors. Just as there are some very important high time PPL's who shouldn't be allowed near hangar doors in comparison with instructors.
In other words one can learn to finess ones game by demonstration by one peers as opposed to constant reference back to the training organisation. Horses for courses perhaps.
Sir George Cayley