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I left this morning for my first supervised solo. My flight
instructor is a new guy, about 25 who's never taught students before a month ago. But he seems to know his stuff, so I've put up with him for this long. Until today. We take off from Addison to McKinney TX airport, arrive at McKinney and begin pattern work. Apparently my pattern wasn't tight enough so my instructor who I guess is having a bad morning starts yelling at the top of his lungs, "90 KEEP IT AT ****ING 90 ON DOWNWIND!!". I look down at the airspeed, which is at 87. He slaps my hand away from the throttle, and mashes it in. The nose comes up and he hammers the yoke with his hands so the plane pitches down suddenly. "Watch your altitude", he says. We come in for a landing, on a regular runway with no displaced threshold. He's yelling to keep it at 70 and pitches the yoke down. We're headed directly for the grass in front of the runway. I ask if we can land about fifty feet farther in because at this angle we'll be right on the grass/lights. McKinney is over 6k long, so we have room. And it's 2 days before Thanksgiving so hardly any traffic is present. He says no (seemed like a reasonable request), yells, yells more and my landing which is now low because of our airspeed and him not allowing me to slightly power it to make it farther in, sucks. We stop on the runway, and next pattern he simulates an engine failure. I pitch for about 70, and get, "SIXTY-EIGHT. WHAT'S YOUR ****ING BEST GLIDE? SIXTY-EIGHT!!". There's no way to make it to the runway, at all even with 68. I get yelled at for being too far away, but the tower asked us to be because of incoming traffic. Jake smashes in the throttle and yells "GO AROUND!", forcing the yoke forward because the nose pitched up (thanks to him hammering the throttle in) then yelling at me for that. At this point, I'm ready just to go home. But I consider it wasted money, and probably better to let him scream for 10 more minutes and I'll probably get to solo. Sure enough, after two more landings I solo. "DON'T RUN ME OVER WHEN YOU ****ING COME BACK", he says. 90 downwind, tight pattern, smooth landings. The McKinney tower guy even told my instructor after he got back in that my pattern and landings looked great, but I forgot to announce my callsign once, I didn't center line all the landings, etc etc all announced on the tower frequency. Thanks McKinney ATC guy! *sigh* We return to Monarch Air, he says tie up the plane and hurry up. Coming into the "office", there's 4 instructors standing there, all not talking, avoiding eye contact and Jake in a chair looking down with his hand outstretched for the key. No good solo (which is was), congrats, nadda from anyone. And thus I left, no happy Thanksgiving, see ya when I get back, almost like Jake just wanted me to get the hell out of his face. So should I get a new instructor? Mine seems like a miserable human being. If I was a bad student, maybe I could understand. But the senior instructor that's flown with me on progress flights called me "significantly better than average". How much of a hit would I take changing instructors this far in? Does asking for a new one (preferrably with some experience) label me as a problem student with the school? Is it too much to ask, to be allowed a few feet into the runway if I'm more comfortable with it? Any advice would be appreciated. I'm beginning to hate flying, which is sad because I began learning thinking it would be fun. |
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