Originally Posted by November Seven

And, that underlies my dilemma. How is it possible for the student to wrap their head around the totality of everything they are responsible for learning, retaining and executing - when their learning style absolutely requires drilling down to a level of minute detail on every single subject they study - which as you say, causes the CFI to truncate the process because they have a personal hang-up with a highly detail oriented student?



Which gets back to my original question about the CFI's actual Teaching capacity. The absolute best Teachers in the world thrive on highly detailed questions from students, because they use them as springboards to connect dots in the students mind.

Looking at the equation from the opposite end, one could say that given the number of GA incidents by otherwise licensed pilots that something is wrong with either the System on the back-end or the Training on the front-end. Thus, the reason I traverse through the weeds to find the truth of the matter before I begin my training.

Hopefully, I'm able to weed out training problems in the majority that causes a pilot much later in his flying career, run an AP Test flying through IMC while his aircraft is basically turning nose down, exceeding Vo while rotating through 75 degrees of bank, to the point where he's now completely confused about what to do next because he's spatially disoriented. As just one of countless problems with either the System or the Training.




That's what I wanted to hear. I don't want to end up upside down in IMC (basically inverted for all practical sake), no idea where my horizon is located, yanking back on the yoke as the airspeed indicator rips through 400 kts. Unless, of course, I'm flying an F-22 in which case - that might actually be fun. In a Phenom 300.... not so much.

So, yes. Sign me up for the Intuitive CFI with a Strategy & Heart for Teaching. The Art of Teaching and imparting correct knowledge well seated in the students mind for life, ain't always easy.

I don't fear screwing up in the cockpit. After I'm well trained, I should be able to catch my errors and solve in-flight problems not of own making in most all cases. My biggest fear is being taught by someone who does not truly belong in the Teaching Business and therefore, I get partial information, or information that's so cloudy and nebulous that it requires another CFI to come in and clean up the mess left behind by the first.

Trust, is the operative word here.