Negative report writing
I first soloed 32 years ago and have been flying professionally for 27 years. Recently I made the mistake of looking back over instructors flight reports. How depressing; many were quite negative. Even that preceding my solo was full of gripes. Could it really have been so bad? I soloed in 7h55 so couldn't have been a total duffer. Why did he let me? More recent simulator reports make equally depressing reading. As if every negative point has to be written up in close detail but none of the positives. I've never failed one but looking back at these makes me wonder why I've been allowed to fly a wide-bodied jet around the world. Which, I've done (touch wood) for a lot of years with no incidents or accidents, unlike some of the writers of the above reports. Is it just me or is there something in the instructor/trainer psyche which is geared to focus on the negative?