think its OK but
You really have to train yourself to a higher standard than a c172 can get away with..
Horror story...Last Summer met a gal who was interested in doing her instrument rating and asked me to go along with her on twice weekly flights so she could build her hours up and get some hood time before she started paying for a real instructor.
Ok that makes me safety pilot and flying is flying so why not?..She had around 85 hours and had gotten her private ticket bout 3 months before.
She actually did pretty well under the hood.
Then she announced she wanted to do some landings..Ok no problem and she elected to land on the Xwind landing with about 8 kts Xwind component..I cautioned her that was "Advanced" for level of experience and was she feeling confident?...I was assured and we came in on the approach.
I noticed her airspeed was fluctuating quite a bit and I asked her on downwind what her approach speed would be?..Hint hint..without looking at the ASI she announced 70kts with 10 degrees of flap..I was comfy with that answer..She then proceeded to fly the pattern without ever looking at the ASI..when she dipped to 50 kts at one point I sqwarked pointedly and she looked at the ASI, dipped the nose and carried on..Still not looking at the ASI.
I knew there would not be a next time as I was ready to pounce on the controls.
Well the xwind landing was a disaster and I said "go around!"..still fighting with the controls the ossilations (bounces) were getting worse and I slammed the throttle forward said "my airplane" and got it flying.....She calmed down a little and I was prepared to write this off as not her best performance..
Well the ASI thing happened twice more and I insisted we land this time (into wind).
Upon landing she didn't seem to grasp what the issue was..Further more she described a landing a while back where she bounced for the third time at full flaps with the stall horn going off and simply said "so I slammed the throttle forwards and got out of there!!!"
"erm...you do realise how close you were to a stall right?"..Of course she had no idea.
cutting a long story short I could not fly at our next appointment, and told her that I was concerned for her flying solo and suggested she get some time with the flight school CFI..She blew me off..
What to do..Well I went to her flight school and told them what happened and in my opinion she needed some help..Yurns out I was not her first experienced pilot passenger...he apparently had said the same thing.
They grounded her till she took a proficiancy check..she told them what to do with said check and promptly left the flying club...I felt awful but I honestly feel she was an accident looking for a place to happen.
OK this "Pilot" was well below par but was getting away with it albeit only just...In and RV9 she MIGHT also get away with it for a while..In my 7 she would have pankcaked the thing from a hundred feet!
But A good student pilot who flys by the numbers (just like the jet jocks do) should do fine..Just don't get into bad habits..
Frank