Joe thank you for your post. it is an excellent reminder of the frustrations that frequently occur with new folks that go it alone initially and do not heed the itemized chronology that pkh posted. Doing things as he suggested undeniably has the highest success rate with the least expendature and frustration.

Chad, someone who is there to only save the airplane is not an instructor. This person is in fact a baby sitter! Perhaps I can explain the difference since I do perform both functions on a regular basis. For a wide variety of reasons many folks some of whom may be very talented pilots but through no fault of the own may not be able to fly safely. Perhaps they only have one arm, maybe their vision is failing or perhaps they like me cannot stand up to fly and see over the safety fence. I have babysitted a fair number of folks with these problems most have been fine pilots and some I can only envy.

Now for the instructor with a new student this is an entirely different situation. He must convey to you the student knowledge of what is going to happen and why it is happening and then demonstrate it to you where you may practice it and then he must posses the knowledge to properly critique your performance, anylyse and explan your mistakes then he must make decisions from this of what would be an appropriate method or technique to improve your performance. The list goes on and Piper hit on many of them in his post.

Just for the record: Someone who is there to only save the airplane is not an instructor, He is a BABYSITTER.

John