gatt wrote:
"Alan Gerber" wrote in message
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kontiki wrote:
The student does have a level of responsibility
to communicate with the instructor and the instructor has the
responsibility to respond to and accept the student. From
this relationship the learning process takes place.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with your advice. This was a discovery
flight; they didn't really *have* a true instructor/student relationship
yet.

I think Kontiki's advice is good for students who are underway with an
instructor, but I agree with you in this case.

In this experience, the Discovery Flight was also the instructor's job
interview for this potential client, and he failed. There is not yet a
realistic student-instructor relationship.

This is a good discussion, everybody.


I do totally concur regarding the difference in instructing an
actual student pilot and flying someone on a "discovery flight".
My opining about the importance of the communication aspects of
CFI's and students was in the broader sense for which the seeds
should be planted (by the CFI) on that first introductory flight.