david.porter9
I am getting into this thread late but I would suggest you change schools (if you can) or just change an instructor (if you have no choice of schools).
The first 2 or 3 instructors I flew with either treated me like an idiot (e.g. would not explain why a certain checklist item is there) or were overly aggressive, and I moved on. It does appear to waste money (and it does in the short term) but there are as many bad instructors as there are good ones so it's a lottery.
The other thing is that different types of people need to be taught in different ways, and a particular instructor might get on with one type and not another. I know one instructor who regularly says "well that was a f****ing c**p bit of flying" which is OK if you are an aggressive male and all your mates down the pub talk to you the same way, but not if you are more average. But he does it with everybody, including the women.
I believe most instructors, even most of the good ones, are not able to determine how they should modify their style to suit different people. Those that can are great - and to everyone's envy they get all the female students too
