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If you refuse to do something the CFI requires of you, then that is your loss.
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Huh?
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A good CFI will only require something of you if it's a benifit, and by refusing to do that on the principle that you're paying the CFI so you're calling the shots is shooting yourself in the foot.
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No, it isn't! He's the boss if I'm a private pilot student and he's teaching me. When we're on the ground, he can't force me to do anything!!
As I went through all of my flight training, I realized a couple of things. First off, I'm the paying customer! Whether the CFI likes it or not, (s)he's in a service-oriented profession!! In today's economy, a CFI doesn't have the luxury of demanding things of students that are willing to walk across the street to find another instructor! Doesn't work that way!
I'm working with a guy right now, training him for his CFII. I
strongly recommended that he make his own lesson plans, because he would learn more than he would by just buying the ones off of the shelf.
This student, however, didn't want to make his own. He wanted to but them off the shelf. So, what did I say? OK!! That's up to him!! If it takes him 90 hours of groundschool to be ready for a checkride, then that's when I'll sign him off! I can suggest, but I can't make him! HE is the paying customer, and all I can do is say, "I told you so".
So, what would he do if I said, "Well, although you are permitted to use commercially available lesson plans, I refuse to teach you unless you make your own."? He would have found a new instructor!!!!
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If I meet a CFI who thinks differently, then I would be scared to fly with them.
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Sorry....
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Think of it this way, would you tell your doctor how to fix you? Don't think so.
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If I don't like a particular treatment, I won't have it! If the doctor "DEMANDS" that I have this surgery, then I'll probably curse him out for making demands, and go to his competition - and have the surgery done!! It isn't about me knowing best, it's about him demanding such things of me!
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If you don't like the way he/she does it, go to someone else, which I know you are doing, but don't expect your CFI to care.
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He'll care when I tell all my buddies that he's a power-hungry bastage, and that they should do their training someplace else!!!!
It's called customer service!!!!