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You are obviously very keen to do well and I would be the last person to try and dampen your enthusiasm. Your attention to detail in all you do is commendable.
BUT try not to forget that your student will initially know next to nothing about how to operate an aeroplane. If you don't keep things SIMPLE at the beginning, he will just become confused and subsequently underperform for you.
You of course should make sure that your own knowledge is substantial and clear.
Once you have got started, encourage your student to ask questions during the flight and the debrief. Slowly this will build up to what you are trying to achieve - to learn the basics of how to fly the aircraft well within its envelope with safety and confidence.
All the difficult stuff can come later when Bloggs is beginning to understand what he is doing up there and that what you have taught him actually works and allows him to manoeuvre the aeroplane where HE wants it to go.
Listen to the wise advice of Genghis and a couple of the others.
EASE your student into the alien world of flying an aeroplane.
Keep the checklists FEW, SHORT and SIMPLE. Other stuff will come with experience and questions.
Keep the patterns flexible and appropriate to the traffic needs of the airfield without the requirement to fly HUGE ungainly ones. This may require adjusting speeds within safe boundaries but DON'T keep prompting him if it's not EXACTLY the way you would have done it. He's learning, remember ?
Lastly, we used to teach the exercises using a LONG brief (so that he has time to absorb it), followed later by the SHORT preflight briefing to SIMPLY explain what he will be practising during the next imminent flight.
Make it FUN. Then he'll be relaxed and much more receptive.
Have a ball and, oh, good Luck.
