I'm only a little ways into primary, but this is already bothering me. I've had one COC flight and it was like a breath of fresh air, because my flight leader focused on teaching me new techniques for things that I was struggling with. My on-wing has yet to say anything positive about anything, whether in flight or in the debrief. I mean, I know my flying needs a lot of criticism, but he treats every flight like it's a checkride. My gradesheets are typically three pages long and they list every minute detail of things I f-ed up, but the things that I know I did well don't ever get mentioned.
Ya might not want to come to jet land dude. The praise is pretty sparing. It's not that it's not there, but there certainly won't be much focus on the stuff you've done well. Before I started here, I thrived and grew on positive reinforcement. I trended toward marginal performance. I decided to refocus and look to my self motivation to get better. It worked, and I'm finishing out pretty well. I still wish I could get a verbal high five once in awhile, but it is what it is.