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Originally Posted by desertdog71  Are you kidding me with these statements? It is EXACTLY the schools job and responsibility to "spoon feed" and "adjust" to you as a student. I find this attitude just plain arrogant. |
You are right that a student needs spoon feeding in the beginning. It is as necessary as spoon feeding a baby. Gestapo methods will not work.
However, the baby must grow up - that is the ultimate responsibility of any parent with a child as it is an instructor with a student pilot.
That still does not require Gestapo methods, but spoon feeding must gradually be weaned to a point where the student has become fully responsible for self.
Spoon feeding, or "pleasing the customer" creates pilots who think that others can be held responsible for their actions, and ultimately cannot maintain control in stressful situations.
It's a very fine line, and is the main difference between "proffesional" instruction, and "Walmart" instruction.
Students, like children, are not aware of the possible dangers of the flying environment, and it is the instructor's responsibility to put them into "simulated" environments which may test their emotional response.
If a person expects to be catered to, he may be a danger to himself and others in our environment.
Again, Gestapo, or military methods are not necessary to achieve this training. If that is what you are really talking about, I agree. But I/we have seen too many "students" who want to be taken care of and treated like "customers".
I cannot do my job, if I think of you as my boss.
I treat you like a guy who wants to learn how to take care of himself in the worst most possible scenario that I can think of. In the Air.