Robert M. Gary wrote:
On Sep 21, 7:25 pm, "Jeff" jfranks1971 minus wrote:

Still working toward that ever elusive PPL. Full blog athttp://n1451f.blogspot.com.

Enjoy!

jf

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My Unusual Attitude

Well, I thought I'd get ahead of the game a little by emailing Kary the day
before our lesson and find out what, exactly, we'd be doing during the
flight. His reply was quick and to the point:


Has you instructor provided you with an overview lesson plan for your
training or had you purchase a syllabus ? I would be concerned if a
student called me and didn't know what we were going to be working on
the next flight. You should know all your flights up to your checkride
(although your CFI will likely make modifications along the way to
suit your needs).
One of the major problems I've seen with some CFIs is that they don't
provide their students with a syllabus. In those situations students
often feel as though they don't know how they are progressing towards
the checkride and the CFI often isn't focused enough on the goals.
Anyway, not a reflection on your CFI personally because I don't know
what he's actually put together for you.

-Robert, CFII


I agree with Robert. When I was working on my instrument rating, I told
the instructor that I wanted to be briefed on what we were going to do,
how I did, and what we were going to accomplish the next lesson. I
wanted to do this each time we met. This was before the first lesson.
Next time I met him he asked " what did I want to work on/" I told him
that he was the instructor and he should know. We did get a syllabus and
we started working from that.

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Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI