When I first started teaching full scale a long time ago, I met a man who had been trying to learn to fly for years. He had over 150 hours. Everyone at the field he had worked with told him he should quit. I talked him into flying with me. We flew for about a month, and he took his check ride and got his licence. He is a pretty good pilot.

My suggestions to those who are having trouble with a student, suggest to them that they work with someone else. There is a lack of communication that is happening if you can't teach them.

I also had a full scale student that was having problems, He would get frusterated easy. I suggested he think about flying with someone else because he seemed to have a problem with me. He said that wasn't it, and I started seeing improvment on the next flight. He picked things up well after that.

Sometimes, two people don't click. It is not either ones fault, it just doesn't happen. Before you tell someone who really wants to learn to fly that he should give it up, do him the honor of giving him another chance with someone who can give him a different perspective and maybe get him going.

Its not always the students fault if they don't get it, it is sometimes the way the message is being brought. That is not saying the instructor is doing it badly, it just means the student doesn't under stand it and needs to see it a different way.

You would hate to be told to quit, and so would they. Give them every chance you can, and if you run out of patients or ideas, have them work with someone else. If that fails, then there may be a problem.