Being mono vision made learning to land particularly hard. My very first attempt I started my flare 150' above the runway. I got to the point where I could get it on the ground and be able to walk away from it, but each landing was pretty much wild luck, I never knew what the outcome would be. I had gone through all of their instructors except a very serious Frenchman. He just did not look like a fun guy to fly with.
Naturally, it was his turn to start me at the beginning. He landed with me once, then on the second time out with him, he had me greasing it in every time. He did something none of the other instructors had bothered doing, he read up on mono vision pilot training.
He taught me to land not by guessing my hight above the runway, he told me to ignore any attempts at judging hight or distance, instead he showed me how to look at the shape of the runway and my relationship to the far end of the runway. When my aircraft was sinking below the far end of the runway, all I had to do was hold the cowling slightly below that end of runway line, perfect landing almost every time. He soloed me three lessons later.
That is when the owner of the school started making snide comments about the Frenchman to me. He even asked me several times if I would like to have an American instructor instead, you know, one that spoke real English.
I spent the next six months flying in circles around the runway, pattern work only. My French instructor signed me off to the practice areas, but the owner refused, he could always seem to come up with one reason or another why I could not leave the pattern.
That is when I started talking to a lot of the older guys like myself who had gone to that school for their initial training. They all recommended that I quit the school and go over to another airport to get my license, they all had to do the same thing.
That's when I bought my Warrior and about a month after that, I quit the school and moved over to the other airport. The Frenchman continued as my instructor on a private basis. He finished up his students at the school and came over to the other airport as a private instructor. He had me doing solo cross country flights in just a few weeks after that.
Then I ran into another road block that forced me to quit instruction for almost a year.
There are many stories about this learning to fly adventure that I am sure will come out on future threads. I've got a book full of them.
John