Hi!
well... my humble opinion as both student and wannabe instructor is that Mr. J.S. Denker couldn't be more right:
http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/decision...nstructor-comm
* Ideally, I don’t need to say anything. If we are facing an energy-management challenge, you can notice it (the sooner the better) and deal with it.
* If you don’t deal with it on your own, I’ll start asking questions, such as: “How’s your energy? Are we high and fast, or low and slow?”
* Then come more-explicit statements: “It looks like the angle from the horizon to the aim point is growing. If you don’t do something we’re going to overshoot the runway.”
* Then it escalates to an instruction: “Go around.”
* Then the instructions become more detailed: “Add power. Raise the nose. Start retracting the flaps.”
* Finally: “I’ve got it.”
Honestly I think, unless you screw up yourself, you never know what you are doing wrong.
And then... what about the "always ahead of you" guy? Yeah... that kind of instructor that over-coaches you all the way from block to block? It's really frustrating for me.
Regards / Pablo