Jim Macklin wrote:
It really is true, 95% [made up number by guess] of flight students who get
a rating have learned at least to the 70% level on the knowledge and the
practical test is in the 90% skill range of skill, but all rated pilots were
seen to be "safe" on the day they got their test and left the instructors
nest.

But traditional classroom instructor, if judged by the American public
schools, fails 80% of the students.



"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| If you read the whole thing, you'll see that I support flying with more
than
| one instructor, but particularly with a pre-solo student who does not
have
| the skill or experience to do a TO&L session. But the false expectation
and
| the bad habits, frustration and even failures that are likely create a
| plateau or even a big back-slide. I've seen it happen, all the
experienced
| instructors have seen it and many students have experienced it.
|
| At any school, the instructor need to be coordinated and if there is a
Chief
| Flight Instructor {approved school] they should have procedures in place
| just the Henry said previously.
|
|
|
| It's no use Jim. I've been dealing with Jose now for years. He seems
| absolutely convinced that classroom teachers are WAY ahead of the curve
| when it comes to us lowly CFI's :-) I don't think the guy has EVER asked
| me a question about flight instruction. He just lectures and lectures
| and lectures some more.
| He's been informing me on how to teach people to fly for years :-))
| Sorry Jose, but you might at least go out and get the rating and fly
| with a few students before telling us how to best do the job.
| No flame intended really :-))
|
| --
| Dudley Henriques


The classroom advocates (not to mean that classroom training isn't an
asset by any means ) seem to get booged down in understanding that
flight instruction takes place in part at least in a classroom moving at
over a hundred or in many cases over two hundred miles an hour.
The differences involved in teaching in this dynamic scenario just seems
to avoid these people for some reason.
To be quite frank, I get a little tired sometimes of being "lectured" by
these teachers who have absolutely no concept of what it's like to teach
someone to do something correctly at the speed involved with a moving
airplane while at the same time keeping the student they are teaching
from killing them both in the process :-))

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Dudley Henriques