But you could bollocks it up on the day due to being a fanny.
If I were a bloke would I bollocks it up by being a dick????
Take a few quid extra along and get your bloke to drive him home afterwards.
He'll be looked after........ Hopefully -
IF it's flyable (& I pass!) - we can arrange for Mrs HFD to be there so that we can pour him into the car
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Getting this thread back on track....... sorry!
My instructor is very sociable and extremely supportive and I regard him as a mate.....a platonic friendship (If some of you understand the word
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I can, and do talk to him about everything.. He knows when work is stressing me out or I'm not sleeping as it DOES affect my flying.... so he's been known to cut lessons short or change things around to do the "fun" stuff so that I'm STILL making progress, as being assertive doesn't always make me up my game...
The other instructors at the club are equally approachable - even though I'm not theirs - and I'd even regard some of them as friends....
But my school is also a club... and everybody knows everybody else so maybe it's different in a professional school.
(That wouldn't be half as much fun in my book)
There's nothing wrong with being friendly with your students...... They're learning to fly for themselves..... but if they ALSO don't want to let YOU down, they will try harder to get things right..... and it's easier to get things back to "normal" if you've just had to let loose with a torrent of abuse..... (NOT something HFD does by the way)
I do think that the romantic side is a bit off though..........
Students have to have total trust in their instructor and I can see where it would be very, very wrong.......... abuse of power (but maybe that's an older "girly" perspective!).