Student on a Learning Plateau
Having a student who is having trouble with landings and only have one lesson before their stage one check, there are a variety of techniques that I might try to help them get over their learning plateau. The first thing I would likely try is to find an more experienced instructor to help them on this lesson. i currently have a low level of teaching experience, and the student needs more than I can give them. I am not giving up, but I have a responsibility to make sure the student is progressing and that i am not wasting their money. In my training experience there were times when I would have trouble with a maneuver and as hard as my instructor tried, I never made much progress. my instructor sent me flying with another instructor who was able to explain what I was doing wring in a different way. This new explanation just clicked in my head, and I was able to do the maneuver, the other instructor and I then explained what happened to my normal instructor, and gave him new teaching ideas.
Other ideas I might try are breaking down each step of the landing, or having the student study the standardization manual until they can explain what is going on en each step. These are both techniques that I used when having trouble with maneuvers. Review flights and sim training would also be a way to try to get the student over this plateau, however I would not want to waist the students money, and would not do more than four or five review flights. In the event that the student had to have the "aviation is not your you" talk I would want a second or even third opinion. Though I would be much more willing to tell them that we are not compatible and they should try a different, more experienced instructor. I think it is important to give the student every available chance to learn before going down that road.
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