Instructors should acknowledge student frustration during difficult lessons and address it by breaking down complex maneuvers or shifting focus to identify and build missing skill components.
Challenging lessons and feelings of discouragement are a normal and universal part of learning to fly, fostering a strong sense of camaraderie among pilots.
Learning to fly requires persistence and determination to overcome difficulties, as the inherent challenges contribute to the deep rewards and transformative experience of flight.
How can students recover and learn from lessons that don’t go well?
**Dorothy Schick **is the owner of TakeWing, a Cessna Pilot Center located at Creswell Airport (77S) in Oregon. A CFI with 2,800 hours of flight instruction given, she is a member of SAFE (Society of Aviation and Flight Educators) and a FAASTeam representative. She says:
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Pia Bergqvist joined FLYING in December 2010. A passionate aviator, Pia started flying in 1999 and quickly obtained her single- and multi-engine commercial, instrument and instructor ratings. After a decade of working in general aviation, Pia has accumulated almost 3,000 hours of flight time in nearly 40 different types of aircraft.
