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mtsu, that seems a little extreme, particularily due to the fact that people take time to get to know another, especially know each other's teaching/learning styles.
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Don't take it the wrong way - if we'd been flying together for a while, I wouldn't just drop him because he suggested that I buy a book. As long as I was satisfied with him performance as a CFI and he was suiting my needs, I'd just let him know that I wasn't interested in the book, and that was that.
Now, if he decided that it was so important that he wouldn't fly with me unless I had the book (read the above post...), then he's be fired! Just like that. He wouldn't be able to blame anyone but himself, either! The only person that can demand that a student read something is the FAA. If it's that important to him, then he'd better come up with a more civilian friendly method (maybe that's why I don't fly with former F-14 pilots....
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