"Simon Robbins" wrote in message
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"Beav" wrote in message
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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.

I had a fixed wing lesson once where after about 12 hours with the same
instructor he was unavailable at the last minute so I got somebody else.
As
I was accelerating down the runway in the 172 I got a bit sloppy
compensating for a gusty side wind and we yawed just a little. Jokingly
the
instructor shouts "ahh.. we're all gonna die!!" But since I hadn't flown
with (or even met) her before it just totally threw me. I got us up in
the
air and proceeded to loathe every minute of the next hour. She wasn't
initially in a mood, it was just that her approach and personality were
alien to my student pilot experience. By the end she was a bit tense and
****ed off because I was flying badly (a lot worse than she was led to
believe I could I learnt), but she failed to realise she'd put me in that
condition in the first place by stripping all my confidence from me at
take-off!

It would've had exactly the opposite effect with me. I LOVE that kind of
humour. I can see me ribbing back with a "No death for you m'dear, merely
horrifying and painful injuries... onwards and downwards!!":-)

I'd have been a bit less impressed if she'd said it and grabbed the yoke
though, coz then I'd have thought she MEANT it. Your experience does show
that people react to others on an unconscious level.

Beav