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Voting with your feet is fine, but remember, this is a two way street,
students learn from instructors but instructors learn from students
too. If your instructor walked out on you, you'd like the respect of
them talking to you first about why, so give your instructor the same
respect.


Do you suppose that if the student does walk, the instructor will think back to
the flight and still be wondering why he left? He knows what he did. When the
student hits the trail, he'll learn the consequences of what he did.

It's been my experience that most of the screamers are afraid. Maybe they need
to find a line of work that doesn't frighten them quite so much.

My very first instructor was someone I promptly renamed "Colonel Goddammit". I
only flew with him that one time... until I took my checkride. Then I had to
fly with him again as he was the DE. And later, he became my chief pilot when I
started flying Part 135. In his case, he yelled because nothing ****ed him off
worse than bad flying. He was famous for his reamings... pilots getting out of
the cockpit looking like they'd been riding a motorcycle sideways.... sunburned
on just one side of their face, etc. G Honest to God, I once heard him
reaming somebody's ass over the sound of the idling engine while I was standing
out on the tarmac. And he didn't care who's ass he got on.... he'd jump on
other retired USAF colonels as quick as anybody else if their technique offended
them. I ended up learning a lot from that man.

But not as a primary student. Oh, and I hit him once with an IFR hood when I
started flying for him Part 135. That time, I was the one who was ****ed. G



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com