Give the lady a break.
If the mechanical palm tree FI course is anything like the fixed wing course its full of holes in the knowledge base about pratical everyday stuff.
And if a pilot has been renting all the time previously the first exposure to all the maintence paper work is a real shock to the system.
And whirly stick to your guns and always be honest if you don't know something. Nothing worse than a FI trying to bull**** a student when its the blind leading the blind. If you cock a demo up admit it then explain to the student why you cocked it up. And if you do something which isn't in the normal order of events again explain why you did it.
After getting a couple of students through, the whole syllabus becomes alot more transparent, the theory becomes alot more off the cuf without having to think about it.
There is no better method of learning a subject than teaching it.
If I wasn't a skint FI I would luv to be your first student.
MJ