Scheduled for 9:00

Preflight plane, sit in plane and wait, get the atis, set the radios, Denise shows up at the plane at 9:25.

Follow checklist on engine startup, engine is cold, Denise is talking nonstop, check the atis again to make her happy, as engine warms up I have to keep idling it down and adjust idle mixture, she reaches over and politely explains why I have the mixture wrong and adjusts it about an 1/8 inch and give me an explanation about how many fingers out to adjust it. Then reaches over and adjusts the idle from 1100  to 1000.

Contact Unicom and get an airport advisory, start to taxi – move 1 foot as outlined by her and drop power to idle and do a brake check, idle back up to make the hard left out of the parking spot – at 1200 rpm she yells at me to pull the power back, the plane barely makes the turn and as soon as I get it straightened out I get a full explanation on taxi speeds. Get to runway 19/1 and I announce on the Unicom – Akron Fulton Cessna 683sp crossing runway 19/1 on the ground Akron Fulton, this is the exact call I was taught to make by her one instructor, as we are crossing the runway she is yelling at me for my radio call – she ended the tirade with “all you need to say is on the ground”.

Pull into the ramp area and go thru runnup with her chatting nonstop about the furniture she wants my brother inlaw to make for her. I contact Akron clearance for my IFR clearance and he gives me my clearance, do the readback, he askes what approaches and in what order, I tell him the holds, approaches, and in what order and he responds to expect that. She jumps on the radio and asks for a hold at Briggs when he is able, that was my first item on the list I had given the clearance controller – he just responds with expect that. As we taxi to runway 25 she is yelling at me for how I made all the wrong comments on the radio. I reach to put the tower frequency in the lower radio as we taxi out and she yells at me to not do 2 things at once, During the flight she yelled at me at least 4 times when I went to add a frequency into a radio that I should not do 2 things at once, then after the flight she yells at me for having dead radio spots, and also informs my instructor of my horrible transgression.

 I stop about 20 feet from the hold short line, and of course I get yelled at and my instructor gets yelled at for that after the flight, claimed I was to close to the hold short line. I announce on the Unicom that we are departing runway 25 and got yelled at for not saying “to the west”. I rollout onto the runway and by now I am scared to do anything, I roll to the center line, power up, call my airspeeds, call my rotate and up we go, now it is 14/G18 crosswind and I am watching airspeed and flying the plane as we are bouncing around, at 100 feet above the ground she yells at me for not having the ball centered and I look down to find it a half a ball off, now I am fixating on the ball and trying to fly the plane, after we land she tells my instructor that I am “lazy on the rudder”, at 400 feet about the ground she asks “what should we be doing now” I ignore her and continue on with the steps taught to me on 500 feet above the ground making my radio call on the Unicom, follow my post takeoff check list (which is still hard for me as my first instructor flew over 40 hours with me and never had me do it), switch to the approach frequency and make all my radio calls and follow their instructions. Now she starts asking where I am and I tell her very precisely where in space I am and how I will enter the hold at Briggs, I try to enter Briggs in the gps so I have dme and she starts giving me instructions on how to do that and gives me wrong instructions and it takes me about 3 minutes to ignore her and get it set right, now after all of that I am 2 dots off on my CDI and she yells at me for that, trust me I can yell very loud at myself, so when I screw up, no one needs to say a thing. Now she is yelling at me for the next 5 miles on how important it is to keep the needle centered.

 As we enter the hold 30 feet low she starts yelling at me to fix that, it is a teardrop entry and I am timing it as she yells at me for altitude and asks why I am flying the direction I am, at 1 minute I turn right and she yells at me for not taking 5 seconds to make the transition from straight and level flight to a standard rate turn, I complete my turn and rollout on the hold radial spot on and start my time on the inbound leg and she again starts yelling at me for the transition being to fast, now we are bouncing around on the inbound leg as it is gusting and she looks at me and asks ”is it bumpy outside or is that you” I reply that it is me and think wow, now we are in the hold and the atc clears us for the ILS approach – never experienced that before and as I look at the approach plate to figure out what heading to go (we always got vectored before) I turn toward where I think I should go and look at the plate again and correct 20 degrees to the heading that will intersect the ILS, of course I get yelled at for that, I fly the ILS down to 50 feet above min and go missed and get yelled at for that, she is yelling at me for the next 5 minutes about how I need to go to the MDA before going missed.

Now ATC tells us to go direct ACO, I point the airplane in that general direction and reach up to adjust the OBS to get us on course and get yelled at for doing 2 things at once. Guess she wants me to go to 3000 before I touch the radio, she never did tell me what I was doing wrong, About this time she turns the heat on and smothers me and I start getting sick – I never get sick in an airplane, I am covered in sweat and ask her to please turn the heat down, as we get into the procedure turn at ACO she is yelling at me that I don’t have Kent state on the radio yet listening in, she told me to fly the VOR alpha and since I cant use anything in the panel without getting yelled at I decided to fly the VOR  alpha and used that for the MDA, of course she yells at me both during and after the flight for not using VOR alpha with DME and then using the lower MDA.

 By now my brain is functioning about 10 percent and I totally blow the NDB approach but come around and shoot it again with no problem. She gets on the radio and thinks she is talking to atc and is still on with Kent and another pilot politely tells her she is on the wrong freq. After we land one of the other training planes is also coming in and we have to wait for them to taxi out of the way and she goes into a tirade about what the heck they are doing going so slow. Now I have to sit in her office and get berated for over a half hour about everything I did wrong. Will I ever fly with her again?? Only if I want to check my own tolerance levels.