One of my favorite moments as a CFI so far
One thing I’ve started noticing as a newer CFI is that a lot of students really aren’t struggling because they’re “bad” at flying.
Most of the time they’re just overwhelmed and trying so hard to do everything perfectly that they end up overthinking every little thing.
I had a student the other day getting pretty frustrated with landings. Every time we turned final you could kinda feel the stress level go up in the airplane. Chasing airspeed, forcing the flare, trying to make every landing smooth instead of just flying the airplane.
After a few laps we stopped for a minute and just talked through what the airplane was actually doing and what they should be looking for instead of trying to force every little control input.
Within a couple landings things honestly started looking way better.
Not because they magically became an amazing pilot in 10 minutes, but because they relaxed a little and finally understood what was actually happening instead of fighting the airplane the whole way down.
Those are honestly the moments that make teaching really fun.
Anybody else have something in training that randomly clicked way later than it should’ve?