Eric Greenwell wrote:
has cross-country experience. I encourage all instructors to try
cross-country because he/she might enjoy it and might be able to instill
that joy in a student, but a good instructor should not feel less valued

Finally you get it! this is the alpha and omega of soaring. If the
student doesn't get the joy of soaring, he will not stay in the game for
long, if he does he may stay for very long. I have known many
instructors who are only able to disgust their student of soaring,
precisely because they never have experimented these sensations and only
invest themselves in trivial technical details. These people take for
granted that the student is very eager to fly and they can do everything
in their power do curb him to their discipline. Don't search long why
youngsters fly away from soaring.

because he doesn't have it.

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Michel TALON