Absolutely. It’s a touch creepy when you’re practicing on another CFI and you realize you can’t figure out how to explain this thing you already know how to do and why.
Just keep practicing.
My CFI told me to go home and teach my dog how to fly. Dogs love to listen to their owners and don’t judge. They don’t know you’re making mistakes.
I found this mildly effective but the dog was much more attentive if I gave the dog a treat every time I managed to talk my way through a lesson plan.
He also suggested I practice on my wife. That was not as good of a plan. She’ll smile and nod just like a real student who isn’t getting it and didn’t like quizzes.
Best to practice on someone actually interested in aviation.
What’s infesting about my wife though is, no motivation to be a student at all, but she DID internalize some of that stuff. Poor dear. I can read her an OMG story of horrible instruction from the internet and she’ll say, “That’s not how that works!” LOL.
She actually did get about half of a private rating ground school into her brain throughout all of that practice time while she was hanging out in the kitchen.
She just doesn’t realize it, or care. LOL.
I bet if I walk downstairs right now and ask her what the emergency frequency is, she’d rattle off 121.5 without even thinking about it.
Or ask her what the airplane will do if we add power in level flight, she’d look at me funny and say, “It climbs. Why are you asking me?!” Hahaha.
And all sorts of other stuff.
Talk to your dog, your wife, the bathroom mirror. Listen to yourself and see if you make any sense at all. You won’t at first. It’ll be all out of order and messed up. Regroup and talk to yourself out loud again. Find another CFI candidate and talk to them. Ask them to critique. Etc.
