What's the right way to switch instructors? I feel like I should at least talk to the guy on the phone, but I called yesterday morning, no answer, left a voicemail. No return call. Called again today, went straight to voicemail. At what point can I just send him an email and be done with it? Why does it feel like breaking it off with a girl rather than just switching to a different business...am I making it more complicated than it needs to be in an effort to do the "right" thing? what is the right thing in this situation? does it even matter?
Since you go by your real name, post on here about all of your CFI's mistakes/flight history in our tiny world of aviation instead of going to him, the school directly or just switching CFI's, I'd say he has bailed out on training you. Some people are not into telling the whole world every little detail of their life.
From your prior thread...
"He seemed very seat-of-your pants in his flight planning."
"but never cracked a POH."
"I'm interested to know if this type of "seat-of-your-pants" planning will suffice with a DPE? My guess is probably not"
"I'm really rusty and immediately start making mistakes, and my CFI is immediately frustrated and is all but yelling at me to keep right rudder in (I know this, but again, I'm rusty.)."
"We fly out a few miles from the airport and we fly through a rain cloud, it was bumpy and I couldn't see anything, but we came out the other side, no biggie."
"At this point I'm a bit stressed from being rusty, getting fussed at, and then doing a horrible job managing"
"I then see te airport before my CFI which he was apparently pleased with. I do a horrible landing and get yelled at again and we take off to head home."
"At this point I'm not sure if this is normal or if I should be questioning putting my life in this CFI's hands, but I'm there regardless. I still don't know if this is a normal thing or if my CFI shouldn't have had us go up after hearing the SIGMET. Either way though, given my rustiness, I don't feel like it was a good day to experience new scary things."
"Anyway, we find a clearing to the airport and head in, they turned the ILS lights on for us, which was helpful. I did another horrible landing (at this point I was so frazzled that I don't know if I could have possibly done a good landing even if I hadn't been rusty) with 3 or 4 bounces, which I got yelled at for again...taxi'd back as the rain started pouring down and the ramp guys picked us up from the hangar and took us back to the FBO. One of the ramp guys asked me what it's like to fly with my CFI kind of insinuating that the general opinion is my CFI is crazy, which didn't make me feel great either. After getting a couple of jokes about my "multiple landings" from the ramp guys, I headed home wondering if I have what it takes to do this..."
"I'm not giving up, and I already scheduled another dual XC flight for next Saturday, but I'm definitely feeling pretty low about my flight training right about now."