"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:10:24 -0000, "Beav"
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"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in
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Ok, so it wasn't the ship on Friday. Flew cough an entirely
different ship today and sucked worse than on Friday - only this time
I had company..

Kev, good diary (as usual) but don't you think your instructors OBVIOUS
crap
mood had a bearing on your ability today? People generally respond to
those
around them and if (as in this case) your instructor hasn't got the basic
idea of that by this time, he needs a slap upside the head. He MUST know
that if you get the idea he's having a bad day before it starts, you're
going to react to that even if you don't think you will.

It may have, but my customer's bull**** a couple hours before that
didn't make my mood much better. Usually other people's moods don't
affect me. The combination of his poor mood and my poor mood probably
didn't help. I've heard some hangar talk regarding that morning and I
think I know what got him all bent out of shape. If it's true, I'd be
livid if I were him.

There's that very old and often over used saying, but not this time "Don't
take your home problems to work and don't take work problems home" and I
reckon it's one of the best bits of advice I was ever given. People DO react
to those around them and an "atmosphere" at work, or at home is not needed.
Sure we all have bad days, but as a paid instructor he should have the
PROFESSIONALISM to leave you out of HIS problems.



I think his attitude stinks to high heaven. Now granted he can't give you
a
pat on the back for making a pigs ear of your flight, but he COULD'VE done
something before you first lifted off to make it less obvious he wasn't in
the mood for flying. In fact, I thiink his attitude stinks so much, I'd
fire
the ****er if he owns the school, and bitch on him if he's just an
employee.

I'm not holding anything against him.

I'd only hold one thing against him, but it'd have six other things buried
inside it:-))) Well five actually:-))))))


I was the one doing the flying
and I just wasn't performing to my expectations. I'm very hard on
myself with pretty much anything I do, be it flying or building
something out in the shop. Looking back, *I* wasn't in the mood for
flying on Monday.

Even so, I think your instructor was way out of line. I bet if you asked him
if he was, he'd say "Yeah" too.

Yesterday I had fun buzzing around and today went
pretty good (except for the hover autos) as well.

Were you solo?


I'm supposed to fly tomorrow and do my long dual X-country Friday but
I'm considering cancelling both - I need to go earn some money!

Ahhh, the old thorny thing! :-))

Beav