Overall pitch up, brief and go fly.... Also flying with an instructor that knows flying should be fun is a good thing. Sometimes I think we all need to (safely) do silly things: hovering/flying backwards in high winds, low level etc.
Absolutely! Couldn't agree more GW, thats just the way we do it
Also if week after week when you turn up to fly, the same stickers are there that to me does not say that the owner is taking an active interest in rectifying the issue.
In some instances, no doubt true. However, we had an aircraft u/s from April until about October (that one was actually due to a student having a bad day - namely me!) That was not due to the fact that the club do not care for their aircraft, it was simply down to the Germans not getting on with providing us with the spare parts! So u/s stickers are not a true indication of the club's treatment of the aircraft...