Originally Posted by
DirectTo
Really? Because he's currently a much better instrument pilot than you are.
I'm just making sure I have this straight. You, a private pilot with what, 100 hours of total time, is judging a CFII teaching a collegiate level course because it's his first year teaching?
You do realize that every college professor has, at some point, been in his or her first year of teaching? You think that he just jumped in and is making it up as he goes along?
I'm going to venture a wild guess here that an aviation department didn't pick a lackluster, half-ass CFII to teach their instrument ground class. They picked someone they were confident would get the job done.
They should probably let him go and throw you in there. You'd no doubt do a much better job than him.
I second all of that. I got my CFI in a college program and got my first teaching experience by teaching for the university. I had students and taught some ground school at the university. Yes I made mistakes and I was still learning, but I made sure my students passed and I made sure that they were willing to talk to me if they had problems. They knew that I was new.
Go talk to the guy. If he's really a new CFII then he's probably open to the input from students. I would much rather have a student come up and tell me why they disliked my teaching style rather then finding them complain about it on an Internet forum.