Flying Training: Different Strokes for Different Folks?
Do you teach all your students the same way? Or adapt your teaching to the student? Which should you do? And how difficult is it to teach in different ways?
I have a reason for asking. When training for my PPL(A), I had an instructor who so destroyed my confidence that it took me ages (and a good instructor) to begin to enjoy flying again, and a very long time to get my PPL. By the time I did my PPL(H) I was wary, but had a really nice guy who kept telling me how good I was. Looking back I ended up dangerously over-confident; I'm not blaming him, but perhaps someone else would have noticed the signs. Now recently I've been learning to fly a flexwing microlight. After a few hours with an instructor who talked non-stop, yelled at me, and demanded I talk through what I was doing, I realised I was getting worse not better. I know more these days, so I sat down and explained it all to the guy. When it became clear he couldn't or wouldn't change, I moved to a different school, and I'm getting on fine.
So, as wannabe helicopter instructor, I'm wondering... What do you all do?