"Viperdoc" wrote in message
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In a similar vein, I had an instructor slap my hands from the controls and
take over while we taxied up to a parking spot after a check out. We were
going at a slow speed, but he wanted to go to another tie down. There was
no emergency or impending event, he just wanted to go in a different
direction.

I explained to him why I thought this was not acceptable for him as an
instructor, and after hearing his weak response, I walked away and never
flew with him again.

He could have said "park over there" or even "I've got the plane", but as
a result, he lost a student and client.

I agree. If I were grading this instructor based on solid knowledge this
event occurred exactly as stated, I would find that the instructor should
never have allowed the incident to progress to the point where the airplane
was entering into a parking area he didn't want it to be in. His errors in
this case were several.
The progress of the airplane on the ground should have been better planned
by the instructor so that the first area of parking entered by the student
was the one desired by the instructor; so poor planning to begin with.
Next, physical contact in the corrective sense with a student is never
acceptable behavior for a flight instructor. If the CFI is teaching
properly, the student should not be in a position where this type of
correction is necessary. Not to say that sudden corrective action is never
necessary for an instructor, but if it is, it should be recognized early
enough by the instructor that the "correction" comes more as a "helping
hand" than as a sudden corrective movement.
The entire process of flight instruction is geared toward instilling
confidence in the student. A poor instructor using poor technique can easily
destroy in one second of sudden reaction at the end of a dual session what
has been achieved in the building of confidence with the student through a
last hour of dual.
Dudley Henriques