5x5 wrote:Two thoughts -Old Dog Flying wrote:Is it any wonder that we Old Dogs are so critical of todays breed of instructors? Well this vieo tells it all.
1. It's nice to know there were never, ever any poor instructors in the "good old days."
2. What makes for many an "elder" (as discussed another thread) is the tendency to take one example and apply it to all.
Actually... one thing I've noticed is that it is typically 'older' flight instructors who behave like this.
These aren't the older instructors that started in their teens or 20s and have decades of experience behind them. No... these are instructors who started in their 40s and 50s... ...read every single book, every single editorial in Plane and Pilot, and bought all of the King Aviation VHS tapes... ...drove their Class 4, 3, 2, and 1s insane when getting their training... ...invented a ton of quirky ideas on their own... ..have an over active sense of mortality... and now are trying to pass on all of that knowledge and fear to an already saturated student.
Low time young instructors? Inexperienced and impatient yes..... ...but typically in no position to further confuse the student with tons of extraneous information and often without that sense of mortality that allows them to let situations develop so the student can exercise PDM.
