Hello All,
To give a little bit of background. I am currently a full time employee working in the finance field and decided roughly 6+ months ago to realize my dream and am currently in the process of my going for my private pilot certificate with expectations to obtain my instrument, commerical and CFI certificate to work in the field professionally.
I am concerned and quite frustrated with my progress thus far. I am roughly 45 hours in which I started over six months ago. I fly only on the weekends and its been a tough winter here in the Northeast. I didn't fly all of January and have other months where I got up in the air twice so staying proficient has been really tough.
I have not soloed yet but we have moved into the cross country part of the syllabus (I am at a part 141 school). This instructor is a new instructor with approx 600 tt and his other students are in the same camp as me and haven't soloed either. At least 2 other that I know of which are in a similar stage as me. He says there is no rush to solo as he wants me to be ready as well as him confident in my landings. He also says that technically we can go through all our cross country work and once I solo I can do all my solo work together (pattern, practice area, cross country). I am struggling with my landings at the moment but with not getting a ton of landings in every weekend progress has been hard. There are some days that I nail them and others not so much.
The second part of the equation here is that I am struggling with some of the instructors communication with me up in the cockpit as well as on the ground when I don't get something or do something incorrect. His style is to ask me "what am I doing?" in a condescending fashion. I'm not sure I am learning all that I am suppose to be. This really gets to me and impedes on my progress.
So I have no other basis or a way to find out if what I am going through is OK. I have come a long way and once I get soloed I should on my way to my certificate over the next few months pending good weather.
Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Do I need to have a talk with my instructor? Do I need to be flying more? Should we stay in the pattern working on landings until I am ready to solo before going forward. I am fully confident in the school I am going to but starting to question things on my end.
Thanks in Advance
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