CATC instructors : Highly professional IMHO.
The college system is very different from the units.At TC you get 2 or 3 mentors throughout your training. This gives you a chance to develop a working relationship more easily than at the college.
Advice to U/Ts : show some enthusiasm, because when you reach the inevitable learning plateau during your 300+ hours of training it is this that will get you some "slack" from your mentors. I have seen many trainees who had the talent to make it, but when the going got tough they didn't appear to be motivated enough. A 100 hour radar check-out that is borderline, can be revcovered with a good oral check-out.
Read the books, look keen, ask questions ................ and do the watch scoop-athons !
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