On Mar 6, 2:27 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

I think you're confused, I understand the command
of the ship is a very specific directive with NO
ambiguity. LOL, the way some of these alleged flight
instructors who post to this group, it sounds more
like Curly, Larry and Moe flying an airplane by
concensus. ... I'm splitting a gut from laughing.

Get Dan (BIG HEAD) Thomas, the "dud" (Dudlley)
and toss in bertie all on a bench seat in ole airplane,
and watch how they fly an airplane by consensus.
That trio would make the 3 stooges look like genius's.
LOL
Ken

The ultimate goal of flight instruction is to get the student to a
point where he/she has the ability/confidence to actually be the
person in command. This obviously is not going to happen over night.
It's actually the single most challenging thing to "teach" in flight
instruction. Even commercial pilots with hundreds of hours will
immediately look to the instructor when something goes wrong. I've
found what works best is to try to do as much instructing as you can
passively. That means instead of the instructor being the one "doing",
it should be the student "doing" most of whats going on. Grabbing the
throttle and pulling it back, then saying to the student "do an engine
failure", is not instructing passively. You're telling the student
what to do. You don't want that, you want the student to tell the
student what to do because thats how it's going to be in the real
world once that student moves on. Eventually they get used to being
the one calling the shots, so when it gets time for them to solo, they
are more confident.

Another way is to not be too harsh when the student makes the wrong
decision. Everyone makes mistakes, especially inexperienced students.
If you negatively enforce wrong decisions, you are mostly discouraging
decision making in general. I could go on, but I'm the worlds worst
instructor, so what do I know LOL (-: