Our club www.114thrcaerosquadron.com has a healthy training program; I am now what the AMA calls an Intro Pilot. That allows me to have students fly on my card for 30 days while they get their AMA in order.
I've seen the following at our field.

1. New students come out and wants to train everyone looks around and says "the instructor is not here" and they go back to what they were doing and forget about the student.

2. Been at the field flying my Laser 2000 and have two or three students show up. I am working my tail off while everyone else is sitting and watching.

3. Had some students that needed more ground time instruction and more intense flight instruction. If it takes more time it takes more time.

The point to all this is "Don’t sit around and wait" jump up and say something. If my club members are sitting around with nothing to do when I am instructing, I give them something to do. Run up motors, check flight controls, go over paperwork, I usually go from pit to pit hook up the buddy box check the system and fly. That’s what our instructors do teach people to Fly not spend all day rebuilding some bodies plane. It’s an assembly line atmosphere and it works. Everybody pulls together and gets things done. Usually students get three flights of over 15 minutes or until they are tired or need to leave.

I guarantee you students learn faster, solo quicker and stay in the club or go to another club when we teach this way.

So hang in there, find a club that is more into teaching and students and not so much into other things. You can tell just go out and watch them fly in the morning or in the afternoon. You will be able to pick out the guys you want to teach.


Good Luck

JDS