Brief history: I solo'd years ago, but only flew (and landed) a few times. I was generally impatient, flew on really windy days and carelessly assembled my models. I never flew with an instructor... just drove out to the country with no people/property around. Was always really nervous when I flew (had no RC sim'ing experience at all). Stopped after a while.

This time, again years later from the above, I'm doing things right. I am joining a club and I have been conditioning my thumb reflexes in a sim (FS One)... So generally focusing on being more prepared this time... and just doing things right and patiently.

My question is regarding: when I go out to the sanctioned field for the first time with a new trainer, I'm assuming that the club will want me to fly with an instructor first (and I wouldn't mind that... in case something with wind happens, etc). But I can see why they would want that since there are people and property around (the field is big enough though).

I wanted to ask if the instructor would prefer or expect a certain flying style from me as a beginner.

When I'm sim'ing, I often sort of "pretend" and try to fly like I would if I were maidening my plane... not being aggressive, paying particular attention to being slow/smooth, a bit wider gentler turns.

Would the instructor be very particular about how he wants me to fly? If so, I could fly more that way in the sim as my maiden flight starts to come up (so it's habitual). I might be maidening fairly soon.

Thanks

p.s. I've also studied the map of my local field and it's no fly zones. In every sim scenery I sort of super-impose on it the no fly zones of my field and always stay out of them (again making it habitual).