G'day

I agree with Grey Beard. There is an old saying -

"The best way to learn a subject is to teach it."

I have recently been doing some instruction because there simply was no one else. My students have all been "mature". The youngest was about 45 and the oldest is about 65. So I took on the job simply because there was no one else to do it. I used my Kadet Senior initially and it worked well. But the main thing to come out of all of this is that I have become a far more competent and confident pilot. When you are teaching, you have to understand the subject and you get a far better understanding by trying to impart the knowledge to someone else.

My first student is now flying fun fly models and is currently putting an Extra together. He can now fly quite well though he is still learning about checking things. He is also learning (the hard way) not to reef his models into the air. He has a tendency to try to power his models off the ground with too much elevator and power and it has bitten him twice lately.

My other students are still flying their own Kadets and have not soloed yet. One built his Kadet from a plan, the other from a kit. Both have grand ideas about the planes they want to build and fly. One has already started collecting parts to build a 60 inch Lancaster 4 engined WWII bomber. I think he has a few models to build before he will fly that though. The other too wants to build scale models and I have been diverting him to simpler models to practice on. I am going to try to get them to build a Stick, Four Star or Tiger as their next plane to actually fly. It won't be easy to convince them. I have Four Star 40, 60 and 120 models and I think I will give them a fly of the 60 once they are ready for it to tempt them in this direction. I also have a couple of sticks and will let them have a go on one of them too.

Cheers

Mike in Oz