Bill Daniels wrote:

Giving the glider to a newbie who will then get out of position so the
instructor has to take over just makes it worse. To see a wildly gyrating
glider instantly calm down as the instructor takes the controls is
humiliating - especially to a high time power pilot.

I agree with most what you've said. But when a high time power pilot
abandons to learn flying gliders just because he can't fly the tow the
first time he takes the controls of a glider, then something is *very*
bogus with his attitude to aviation and possibly with his whole ego.

Stefan