Best Student: Sarah, 28, 8.9 hours to Solo (spread over three months)
Worst Student: Denis, 55, 45.8 hours to solo.
This is despite the fact that I could hardly talk to Sarah because my tongue was lolling uselessly out the side of my mouth.
Warwick Renton if you let her go you're a fool!!!
I have found the same basic personalities in both Male and Female flight students and Elk McPherson alluded to them a lillte while ago: Some are dreamers, some are doers.
The middle aged "Dreamer" types are often the hardest to teach, keen as they are to float amongst the pretty fluffy clouds and reluctant to do any work or study towards it.
Without a doubt, the best instructors I have known (both as a student and as an employer) have been WOMEN.