BMacLean wrote:

Don't get on me for my choice of words, Robert. The term "scary" was just
being girly. You know, you just try to have a pleasant conversation and
maybe a little fun on this newsgroup and you get chastised. Everybody's got
to take the opportunity to show their "superiority." So you want to be
serious...I perhaps invest too much personally in my students and I want
them to do so well and have such a good experience that I feel it deeply.
My students know I care but maybe not how much. They're just acutely aware
that I have the utmost confidence in them and by solo they have it in
themselves. Thanks, Mark. You get my drift. (No windsock pun intended.)

Barb


Sorry for chastising you without intending it. Remember I am not a native
English speaker (or rather reader and writer) so I don't always get some
subtleties. I think that flying in the same club as two national champions
will prevent me from any attempt to show any "superiority". And my experience
a an instructor is so low that I can only speak of my view on the future and
learn from others. But I wanted just to insist that the instructor who sent me
solo did a good job so I was completely confident at this time.