Hey again, and thanks for answering.
Up til now we have only had 10 exercises with this instructor and this being the second report (written after the last 5 excercises).
The first report has this to say about the frustration-problem:
"Initiative and Accuracy:
- Sometimes you take the initiative to expedite the traffic (intersection departure, short app, speed up cars). If they are not able to do it, don't get frustrated, take it as a challenge. You sometimes get a little bit frustrated when they not are able to comply with your requests. And remember; the earlier you are able to pass the request, the higher is the possibility for a positive answer".
When I got this report I asked the instructor how I was doing overall, and he said "above average". The second report came only 4 exercises later, and with a much more negative tone. I had then had a really bad run where I made a mess out of an unexpected event and afterwards got behind in regards of traffic-handling. He relates this to me reacting with frustration/anger over my own cockup and leading to loss of capacity.
The second report I didn't receive in full (only got the main conclusion), and it states:
"X is a well educated student which knows the theory well. He nees to use this to his advantage to learn the basics and standards very well. When all the standard phraseology, traffic and coordination is at a high level, X is ready to handle unexpected situations."
Basically I'm a bit at a loss about what to do. As the instructor wrote in the 2. report I should know all the "basics"; thus freeing up capacity to handle the unexpected situations, but I find it difficult to be able to improve in this regard outside of the simulator. I'm already a quite interested student, and spend a lot more time than avg. studying or preparing for the upcoming exercises.
The "talk slow" tip I've heard countless times before; but in this regard thing is actually coming along quite nicely: "The speed of speech is constant, and clear, even when the traffic is at a high level. This is good, if you increases the speed you often get "say again", and you loses time and capacity"
Don't really know how to manage the frustration-bit; as was stated above "age and experience tend to help", but I can hurry neither - and I need to perform now; not in 5 years.
Cheers
TH
Post Scriuptum:
By unexpected stuff I mean exactly that; unexpected stuff
Take an example, during a rwy-change I had one a/c taxiing to holding point and another on ground-freq approaching yankee (twy parallell to rwy). The next inbound (after last landing before rwy-change) was 35-40 miles out. I figured that I could depart the two a/c's in quick succession on diff. headings away from the inbound-track and thus getting both a/c off before the rwy-change. The instructor thought otherwise and instructed app to call me and only accept one more departure on the "old rwy". Thus I suddenly had an A320 on holding point for the wrong rwy without the ability to turn around on twy. This is a typical situation where I get stressed and frustrated with myself, leading to me being snappy (in the negative sense) towards colleauges and on the frequency, and diverting too much energy to this particular "situation" in expenditure of handling the normal operations.