ok maybe pathetic is harsh but my old club instructor

i had been flying for at least 7 months at the time, i was a good flyer but they would never trust me to land the model even when i had solo'd already with an electric trainer, ok i know electric trainers are somewot easier but still. He had to remove the tranny from me every minute to level it out when i was doing fine and give me the tranny back. Once i had a different instructor as mine was ill and he took me up and i got 12 mins flight time ALL ON MY OWN. Several weeks later i decide to try my first built model and i took it to the field with me. After umpteen cricisms about vitually everything. I take it home, this expert modeller i know who didnt goto that club offered to look at it and do it up. From at least 15 mistakes the club pointed out he only corrected 2 as all the others were so insignificant it wouldnthave affected flight at all. Ok i know some people will say that he didnt want to crash it or anything but one of the problems was that my exhaust didnt have a gasket! Another being that my plane didnt have a tail wheel even when the plan didnt call for one. Oh and not forgetting the U/C was ever so slightly offset even when the model could have been hand launched. Anyway 2 weeks later sees me back at the field, they make no mention to the previous mistakes. They take me up, brillient take off but the rudder would not respond fast enough after accidently going into a spiral dive. I go home fix it back up, appear next month. What do i hear my instructor saying to his friend as im walking past him to the pits?

"oh good not that flying disaster again, last time i flew that the rudder locked off to the left and went into a spiral dive, god i hope he doesnt want me to fly that again"

due to bird-shooters suddenly appearing over the horizon we couldnt fly anymore, disturbed by the sick sites i was seeing i left the site

for the first crash, i dont blame my instructor at all but he is surely a pathetic instructor

oh and for my plane? At my new club we got straight off and we had a fantastic flight, no problems apart from just a bit aft CG

now when my instructor takes me up, he realises my ability to fly competently and he usually wanders off to the pits to fuel his models back up and chat to friends. Some people might call this dangerous but i am very happy with this as he doesnt smother me and my controls. Im going to be going solo very soon methinks

just my 2 cents