#9 If I don’t mesh with Instructor should I switch Helicopter Schools

Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter airline ground school and I wanted to cover a question just came in from one of our professional pilot members and I was thinking about over the weekend and I wanted to hit it before I left and head out for the airport and I wanted to do it with the email sitting right in front of me. And then I'm going to ask for you to put some of your comments down below, things that you've seen. But I want to, of course, ask you to not, you know, be careful and not use people's names or company names. But first of all, I want to state there are a lot of really great flight schools out there, fixed wing and helicopter, and there are a lot of great instructors out there as well. Okay, so there are qualified schools and instructors. With that being said, there are a lot of problems out there in the flight training world. That's just the way it is. Any product or service has that right. And I've seen my own share of problems over the years with different places I've been to both as a student and then after starting as an instructor. And we get a lot of comments now this one's not, I wouldn't say a ton of these comments because I think people in general don't really want to speak out. They don't want to, you know, want to. I guess they're probably usually afraid to say their name. This gentleman is a professional pilot member and his email is really long, right. And he's older, you know, he did his private years ago, has had a lot of trouble with schools. Like one that went out of business. One, the helicopter wrecked, owner didn't have any insurance, they closed up and left with people's money. And then once you get past that, he took a break for a while and then he's back at it. And he's just having a lot of problems with a particular instructor. So he, and he's flown with other instructors and known and knows how things can work and how things can mesh, right. So this guy's working on advanced ratings and after all these things that he lists, which I'm seeing, you know, red flag, red flag, red flag. At the end he says, do you think I should talk about, should I talk to this instructor or should I just move it on their flight school? The flight school lease, that's only got one other option. So with everything that this gentleman had asked me in this particular email, I emailed him back, I told him I was going to make a video on this, but I also said, you know, this one I think with the amount of things that you're listing, I would just find another. Another instructor, another flight school. He could talk to this individual. But the things that he's stating, I mean, a lot of it's really immature stuff. And I'm again, I'm going to say there are a ton of instructors out there that are good and bad, old and young. And it can be either way. Doesn't mean young instructors are bad. Doesn't mean old instructors are bad. It can be really either way. It all depends on that one person's attitude. And a few years ago, we did a poll and we did some giveaways and we did a. Our poll was, you know, with confidentiality, right? I said, I'll never repeat names or flight schools or any of this stuff. And I asked people, you know, what are your problems? What are you seeing? And number four, I believe, was problems with instructors. Okay? A lot of times instructors are just building their time and moving on, and they really don't care about flight instructing. Not every. Some are passionate. Some are passionate from the very beginning. So again, you're going to get a mix of them. You got to remember, it's your money, right? The money is coming out of your pocket. So if you feel like you're not driving with your instructor, then I would say move on. You know, if you can do it politically correct or without too many waves at a particular flight school and you can jump in with another instructor or break up some flights and see how it would go or switch in schools, it just kind of depends. You know, if you're brand new to it, you're not going to really. Maybe you're going to be a little bit of hesitant because you don't know enough yet, right, to make a decision whether it's just you or it's the instructor. Well, let me tell you a little bit about that. As instructors, they've been through training, right? And one of the things that you're taught as an instructor comes from the Aviation Instructor's Handbook. It says the flight instructor, as a clinical psychologist, basically saying as an instructor, you have to be able to read people, okay? And you have to learn what makes them tick. And of course, following a training syllabus is always good. You have a certain way that you're going to be training somebody, taking them through the course of training. But all people usually hit some kind of a learning plateau. Almost everybody does. Once in a great while, you get somebody who sells through and doesn't have a learning plateau. But almost everybody has a learning plateau. So when a student struggles, it's the instructor's job to help figure out what makes that person tick if they're struggling in a certain area. Everybody has good areas, everybody has weak areas. So an instructor needs to praise you for the good things, but correct you in the things that aren't necessarily correct, but they need to do it with respect, and they need to be able to treat people the way they want to be treated. And many instructors do. Okay, lots of instructors do that. But if you have a particular instructor, young or old, but just has a plain bad attitude and he's only doing it because he just wants to do it or because he doesn't want to do it, then it's just never probably going to work out. So my advice is, you know, it's the instructor's job and the flight school's job to accommodate you. And whatever you. If you have a learning plateau or you have some problems, you know, and sometimes it's just personality conflict. You could have two people, one a student, one instructor who maybe are both really not out of line. And for whatever reason, their personalities don't just don't mix. I mean, that can happen as well. So because you feel like you're not meshing with that instructor doesn't mean you think the guy is a bad person. It just may not be that the way he teaches or the way he approaches people and deals with people may not work for you. And that could go in a number of different ways. Right? So don't feel guilty just because you're really wondering whether you're getting good quality training with an instructor who's given you the training that you need and in teaching you in a form and fashion the way it needs to be done, you know, in a professional manner. So if you got something you'd like to share down below, again, keep it clean. I don't want to bash flight schools or bash instructors, but we would like people to join the conversation and maybe give tips, you know, or give a scenario that you've been through in the past with instructors, good or bad. So give us. Please subscribe to the channel. Click subscribe and click the bell to be notified of new videos. We've been doing a daily video and answering a lot of questions for people. We've got a ton of activity down the comment sections below. And that's really good, right, because people can jump in, they can tell their side of the story, get feedback from others. So it's working out really well. 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