CFI constantly keeping hands and feet on controls

[Whopity]

So, would that mean that an "FI" would be an instructor who is not certified?

Perfectly true, in the UK if you had been "Certified" you would not be allowed to instruct, or even drive a car for that matter!

[patowalker]

Better to be certified than sectioned.

[Johnm]

Change your instructor, I don't even do that when I let passengers have a go from the right hand seat.

Hover really close by all means, but hands off when the student (or passenger) is flying.

[austerwobbler]

Have a quiet word with one of his other students to see if he is doing the same with them as well.
Austerwobbler

[flyingflea]

Only happened to me once during a check ride with an unfamiliar instructor/examiner. He was about 2 hours late for the check and we were losing the light so we jumped in and I taxied out..........the rudder pedals were as heavy as hell and pulling to one side. As we taxied to the (grass) runway, I politely asked him to get his ruddy feet off the pedals and he said "not guilty"
.....After I had changed the flat tyre with the help of a couple of the club instructors, we set off again with me trying to convince the examiner that I really had checked the tyres during the preflight but it must of got a punture during the 2 hour wait for him to turn up....
Anyway check flight passed.

[IO540]

Some instructors are good and some are not good.

I had one instructor who was always grabbing the controls. He was also the one with an "interesting" attitude to serious defects like broken/bare wires under the cowling which could have caused a fuel fire had there been a leak.

I took a walk to another school but he's still there 10 years later.

One has to remember that flying instructors don't go to some kind of 2 year teacher training college... and we all know that many school teachers are crap despite doing exactly that.

[S-Works]

I would guess possibly an inexperienced Instructor? I usually find that the low houred inexperienced Instructors have a tendancy to hover a little too closely to the controls. As they become more experienced and learnt to interpret better what the student AND the aircraft are doing they learn to relax more. Eventually they get into the method that the rest of us tend to use of sitting feet off and arms folded or holding a map etc but being in tune to what is happening.

This is an unfortunate side effect of mking our least experienced pilots the front line of new pilot training. Just remember we all started somewhere!!

If it really bothers you then talk it through with the Instructor. If that does not work then you probably need to consider a change of Instructor. But often you will be amazed how a simple conversation can change things.

[ShyTorque]

During my basic rotary course I flew with an RAF helicopter instructor who used to do this, especially during engine off landings. I often felt he was doing all the flying so one day I let him do it all. I followed him through rather than the other way round.

It was a bumpier landing than I had done on the previous one but he said it was perfect.

I told him he had done the landing and his face was a picture when he realised that I was being serious. Thankfully I was given someone more confident to fly with shortly afterwards.

[airpolice]

The best are those that look outside, hands in lap, and every now and then make you feel like a sh1t pilot with a simple sentence.

How true!

I know one who is great at that.