Thanks for the helpful and heartening replies.
Cumulogranite;
i agree there is a lot to be said for confrontation but being typically british it isn't my favoured way of dealing with such matters!
Although I didnt enjoy the lesson I did still learn from it, so am not overly unhappy to part with my £100(+).
What concerns me is that some students may only experience instructors like this. I have been lucky and have previously had a number of instructors with real enthusiasm for both teaching AND flying. (This brought me onto the idea of feedback, in some sense like the teacher/lecturer appraisal forms we got to fill in at school and uni. If any flying schools have any kind of feedback system I'd love to hear of it.
Thanks again
GullWing
PS While we are celebrating good instructors; come back Paul Fearnside, all is forgiven
