"vaughn" wrote in message
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"vic20owner" wrote in message
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I had just completed an entire
flight without my instructor taking back the controls!

My compliments to your instructor! You don't know how lucky you are. I
had two instructors who did not understand the virtues of keeping their
hands off of the controls. Certain things MUST be demonstrated by your
instructor, and sometimes your instructor must take control for safety
sake, but allowing students to make full "virtual solos" whenever possible
is a real confidence builder.

When it was obviously time for my to solo, I finally had to ask to be
allowed to do that. I did not want to go up my myself without ever once
being allowed to fly a flight from start to finish.

Vaughn

As an instructor, the hardest thing I had to learn was to shut up in the
pattern and let the student go "un coached".

BT