"Bubba" wrote in message
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At four hours of flight time, I kinda felt it was a little early to
learn landings as well, but I have assumed my flight instructor knows
what he is doing. Maybe I should speak up and tell him when I feel
comfortable moving on to a new technique.

Just to clarify, I agree with Mark. My point was that four hours is too
early to be *worried* about whether you'll have trouble with landings. I
never suggested it was too early to introduce landings (though I did suggest
difficult crosswind landings might be inappropriate that early).

I will, however, agree with your thought of communicating with your
instructor about your comfort level with various aspects of training. You
should be able to trust your instructor, and I'll recommend you give him the
benefit of the doubt with respect to decisions about when to introduce new
topics. But at the same time, it's important for you to provide him with
feedback about how the learning process is going for you, and your feelings
about specific types of flight.

One of the great advantages of one-on-one training (as opposed to classroom)
is the ability for the instructor to tailor the instruction to the student,
and for the student to provide the feedback necessary for the instructor to
be able to do that. Don't make the all-too-common mistake of failing to
make full use of this advantage.

Pete