hi kabz,
Just read your reply to my flying training disaster saga on the other thread
I know exactly how you feel, as you'll have gathered. Don't despair, don't give up, though taking a short break and doing something else to get things in perspective might help - I didn't do that, and I probably should have done. Above all though, find an instructor you get on well with. This may mean changing instructors, or changing schools, but if you feel as you do, the chances are the one you've got is no good for you, however good he or she may be for others. If that person happens to be the senior instructor, then change schools.
It might also help to look back closely at what went wrong initially, and when things started going pearshaped. Often you can have missed that because there was so much to do and so many things going on. I'd completely forgotten about the incident I mentioned on the other thread, until I did this. When I did I got mad and wanted to kill that crap instructor who'd been criticising when it was least appropriate - but almost miraculously I could manage to land again. Don't understand it, but I guess that's how those kind of blocks work, sometimes anyway. Also, don't get obsessed with hours, or compare yourself with others. Once you've got a licence, you're a pilot, and no-one will ask you if it took you 40 hours or 200 to get there. Eventually you'll even stop caring yourself - although that took me a while.
I don't claim to be an expert, but if you want to e-mail me about any of this, feel free.
Incidentally, you and I are far from unique. This sort of thing happens in flying training often, far too often. I've been told we're unusual in sticking it out and not giving up, that's all. So hang in there!
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.