>>1127822>>1127818The original anon from last night here.
I finished my IFR in about a month flat, but I flew 3 hours a day and sold my soul to do it. Cost me a long term relationship and basically an entire winter break of socializing. Totally buried myself in it. I was also lucky to have an INCREDIBLE CFI-II who just fucking ruined me day in and day out so that my checkride was a cakewalk.
During accelerated training like that, problems become exaggerated since you don't have a week to forget about them. I could tell when I burnt out, I could tell when I plateaued, I could tell when my stick and rudder was really sharp or not. That's kind of why I'm telling you to just relax and take a break. There were flights on like the 6th or 7th day in a row that were just so garbage and I couldn't hardly maintain altitude let alone shoot an honest approach. On a day like that it was just "hey I'm gonna stay home and study and just not think about being in the airplane for a few hours" and every single break like that made me fly 200% better when I hopped back in the plane. There were also occasions where I elected to plow through the plateau, and guess what? I never did. I just wasted more time before I had to take a step back and think about something else.
My advice to you is don't sweat it, don't let it knock you down, just keep doing your thing. Maybe a little extra driving is worth finding a new instructor and a better airplane. You're not reinventing the wheel, you're just learning a slightly counter intuitive ever-changing set of rules that allow you to exist in a world where not understanding the rules makes you dead.
My last bit of advice is that you probably need more self guided study. There's infinite resources that can help you learn all this stuff but the more you know about it the better your questions get. Once you start asking good CFI-II's those questions you thought of on your own time then you really start to make leaps and bounds in real IFR flying
