instructor technique

Stefan wrote in message ...
Just talk to the instructor. If nobody tells him, he probably isn't even
aware what he does.

I think that he is just used to doing it. How can you *not* be aware
of it?

On my second flight with this guy we were circling in a thermal, and I
asked him, "Do I have control, or do *you* have control ?". He replied
that he was "just helping me". I told him that I wasn't going to
learn anything that way, and he reluctantly said "ok".

This was after his pointed briefing on the ground about that we needed
to be clear about who was in control, and that whoever was would
announce / confirm it.

Mike