Thanks for all your great replies... i guess i'm not doing to bad with my instructor, what do you think seeing answering these questions:
1) Do you get briefings before new exercises? Recently I talked to someone who'd done quite a lot of the course, and almost never had a single briefing. You should be getting some, even if not before every lesson.
No! at that annoys me alot!! Next lesson i will ask him to brief me what we are going to do, i also found that he was talking about some other student, like: we did last time this and that while that was not true at all. I had a few times he said to me: i didn't learnd you like that! but it was the first time i heard/saw that move
2) Does your instructor appear to care more about whether the flying conditions are right for you, than whether he's making any money. If he/she wants to fly no matter what the conditions, be careful. It may be good practice for you to learn to fly in marginal conditions, but it may not.
I must admid he flies with me when other people cancel their reservations, but i don't mind. i trust him to put me safely down and it gives me some trust in myself also landing with 15kts crosswinds, so i do not mind that part...
3) Is he/she avaialble when you want to ask questions. The person I talked of in Point 1 said he asked a couple of simple questions...and the instructor turned round and charged him £50 for ground school!!!!! If you want a ground school course, fine, but charging for a couple of questions, NO!!!!!
Yes, i can ask him questions, most of the time we end up having a drink in the bar (if he does not has another student directly after) and i can ask whatever i wan't
4) Do you get on with him/her, and do you appear to be making progress? Students often tend to blame themselves if they're not making progress, but another instructor may be better for you, even if there's nothing wrong per se with the one you've got. Worth trying someone else to see.
one time i did not flew for a few weeks and he told me that i will be having forgetting everything and start again from zero, he did alot alot of exercises but believe it or not, flying went very very well and he said afterward: i told you you would had to start again from zero hahah, i did not comment on that because i think he was a little pissed of the non-flying weeks..
5) If you're worried about what your instructor will think if you fly with someone else, tell them the truth, that you just want to get another point of view. And if they get upset about it....well, I'd be wary of someone like that. It's YOUR money and YOUR flying and YOUR choice.
I already told him about another club, what he tought about them, and he started laughing that they will just do everything to get the most money out of my pockets, at that moment i knew he was taking advantidge of me hahaha
at the end i think i could learn to fly faster with a more honest instructor, but mine i find is not to bad.. once the engine is running and his minutes start counting he's not a bad guy, but he's doing very fast pre-flight inspection just to get the minutes running ASAP.. that's a shame