When I think about all my instructors, they were each, to a man, unflappable, even once when I did make a very dodgy maneouvre (nearly resulting in a dynamic rollover). Only during the debrief was the severity impressed upon me; not in the cockpit.
That's what I was after - I wanted to know that instructors like that actually existed before mentioning the subject to my buddy in the right hand seat
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Thanks for the input guys.